AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In addition to inherited physical traits such as eye color and height, you also have learned characteristics such as the language you speak or your personality. You aren’t born knowing how to ride a bicycle or tie your shoes. These skills must be taught.

Detailed explanation-3: -A learned behavior is a skill that an animal develops after it is born. Genes do not control learned behaviors. are not passed from parents to their offspring. Humans and animals learn from adults and their experience.

Detailed explanation-4: -NEARLY all behaviors are associated with some form of heritable genetic variation (Kendler and Greenspan 2006). This interplay between genetic and other forces that shape behavior is complex, and disentangling it occupies an array of research endeavors spanning disciplines from evolutionary biology to psychiatry.