AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A behavior in which newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving object they see. Behaviors passed from parents to the offspring and are with the animal from birth. These are also called instincts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Imprinting is a behavior in which newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving object they see. Usually, this moving object is the mother.

Detailed explanation-3: -Imprinting refers to a critical period of time early in an animal’s life when it forms attachments and develops a concept of its own identity. Birds and mammals are born with a pre-programmed drive to imprint onto their mother.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rural children have who raised ducks or geese have long known about “imprinting”-or socially bonding to a parent figure. They learned that if they were the first moving object seen by newborn chicks, the young birds would soon follow them around devotedly.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: An example of imprinting is young ducklings following their mother, due to exposure to the mother duck during a critical period of their growth. A is the correct answer.