AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -By definition, an innate behavior is genetically built in to an organism rather than learned.

Detailed explanation-2: -Inherited characteristics can be behaviors! These are called instincts. For example, birds are born knowing how to migrate.

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: -Genes influence each individual’s behavioral and psychological characteristics, including intellectual ability, personality, and risk for mental illness-all of which have bearing on both parents and children within a family.

Detailed explanation-5: -Among the traits found most strongly determined by heredity were ambition, vulnerability to stress (neuroticism), leadership, risk-seeking, a sense of well-being and, surprisingly, respect for authority. The genetic factor for these traits was found to run somewhere in the region of 50 to 60 percent.