AP BIOLOGY

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

INTRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A baby crying is an example of what type of behavior?
A
Learned Behavior
B
Inherited (Innate) Behavior
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Crying is both an innate and a learned behavior. This is because humans are born with the innate knowledge of how to cry and use this knowledge as infants to signal their needs to caregivers.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Crying is innate, a part of our biological endowment that is needed immediately after birth.” Crying is the first language of babies. They’re able to scream loudly from the minute they’re born, since they don’t develop language for many months, and crying is the only way they can communicate early on.

Detailed explanation-3: -Innate behavior comes from an animal’s heredity. An animal’s instincts are examples of its innate behavior. For example, migrating birds use innate behavior to know when to begin their migration and the route that they should follow. Learned behavior comes from watching other animals and from life experiences.

Detailed explanation-4: -Innate behavior is genetically programmed. Individuals inherit a suite of behaviors (often called an ethogram) just as they inherit physical traits such as body color and wing venation. In general, innate behaviors will always be: Heritable-encoded in DNA and passed from generation to generation.

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