AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Innate behavior is behavior that’s genetically hardwired in an organism and can be performed in response to a cue without prior experience. Reflex actions, such as the knee-jerk reflex tested by doctors and the sucking reflex of human infants, are very simple innate behaviors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reflexes include not only such simple acts as chewing, swallowing, blinking, the knee jerk, and the scratch reflex, but also stepping, standing, and mating. Built up into complex patterns of many coordinated muscular actions, reflexes form the basis of much instinctive behaviour in animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reflexive behaviors are an organism’s immediate reaction to a stimulus. It is a form of innate behavior. These messages are sent to the spinal cord and straight to the muscle. Instinctive behaviors are those that have evolved over time in the organism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definitions of instinctive reflex. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus. synonyms: inborn reflex, innate reflex, physiological reaction, reflex, reflex action, reflex response, unconditioned reflex.

Detailed explanation-5: -Reflexes are controlled by the part of the brain called the cerebellum, or primitive brain-animals do not have conscious control over them. Examples of reflexes include shivering in response to the cold, or blinking when an object flies toward the eye.