ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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The habitats they live in
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The color of their fur
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The amount of food they eat
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The number of limbs they have
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Detailed explanation-1: -Inherited Traits in Animals Animals also inherit traits from their parents. Some common inherited characteristics are fur color, fur length, eye color, height, length of tail, ear shape, and patterns such as spots, stripes, or patches.
Detailed explanation-2: -Acquired traits include things such as calluses on fingers, larger muscle size from exercise or from avoiding predators. Behaviors that help an organism survive would also be considered acquired characteristics most of the time. Things like where to hide, what animals to hide from and other behavior like that.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since offspring receive different traits from their parents, animals born in the same litter can have very different appearances. These puppies have different fur color and snout shapes. A tiger’s stripes are an inherited trait from its parents. Tigers may either have wide stripes or narrow stripes.