Inherited and Learned

What is an INHERITED trait?

• A trait you get from your friend.

• A trait passed on from your parents.

• Something you get from your grandparents.

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A crow dropping nuts in front of cars

• Inherited trait

• Learned behavior

Coyote's excellent hearing

• Inherited trait

• Learned behavior

a cow's wide flat teeth for eating grass

• Inherited trait

• Learned behavior

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fish having gills to breathe underwater

• Inherited trait

• Learned behavior

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A plant leaning towards the sun

• inherited trait

• learned behavior 

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Which of the following characteristics would be a learned behavior?

• a frog hides beneath the surface of a pond

• a rabbit stays very still when a dog approaches

• a dog chases squirrels and other small animals

• a parrot says “good morning”

Smelts are fish that lay their eggs in the sand of a beach. When the eggs hatch, the babies know to go to the water. This is an example of...

• inherited behavior

• camouflage

• hibernation

• learned behavior

The shape of the needles on a tree is 

• Learned 

• Inherited 

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Birds' beak size

• inherited

• acquired

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