Learned and Inherited Traits

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Learned and Inherited Traits
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Traits (characteristics and behaviors)

• Inherited Learned Practiced
• Response to Environment Mother
• Taught Father

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Inherited or Learned

• A horse has a black coat with white patches,
  white face, and a white mane with a black
  forelock.
• Robins have orange chest feathers.
• Redwoods are among the largest trees in the world.

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Inherited or Learned

• Holly plants have bright red berries.
• Some horses can be trained to jump over water and
  fences.
• A hunting dog finds birds that have been shot and
  retrieves them to its owner.

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Inherited or Learned

• Dairy cows return to the barn each evening after
  spending the day in the pasture.
• It is much easier for a person to shoe a horse
  who lifts his leg when prompted by a touch.

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Inherited or Learned

• Plumeria is a tropical plant that has bright
  pink, white or yellow flowers.
• Some species of the bamboo plant reach 120 feet
  in height.
• Trees have different shapes and different kinds
  of leaves according to what species they are.

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Inherited or Learned

• Many kindergarten children know how to tie their
  shoes.
• Knowing multiplication and division facts makes
  it easier to work math problems.
• People use fibers from the cotton plant to weave
  cloth that can be made into clothes.

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Inherited or Learned

• A honeybee remembers where its hive is located.
• The raffiesia is called monster flower because
  the flower of this plant is three feet wide.
• Reptiles are animals whose bodies are covered
  with scales.

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Inherited or Learned

• Earthworms have no eyes.
• Birds are not able to chew their food because
  they have no teeth.
• A chimpanzee makes a ladder from objects to
  reach a piece of fruit that is too high to get by
  just reaching.

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Inherited or Learned

• In Yellowstone National Park, bears often return
  to the same trashcans to look for food.
• Bobcats wait and watch motionless to stalk
  rabbits, squirrels, and rats before pouncing on
  their prey.

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Inherited or Learned

• Children with good manners remember to say
  please and thank you.
• The female wood thrush lays turquoise eggs.
• Red bats spend summers in the northern United
  States and migrate to the southern United States
  in the winter.

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Inherited or Learned

• Most people have brown, green, or blue eyes.
• Cowbirds lay white eggs with brown speckles.
• After much searching, a woodpecker finds a hole
  in an oak tree to build its nest.

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Inherited or Learned

• Bird parents teach their young to fly.
• A red-tailed hawk sits on a fence post watching
  for the movement of a field mouse so he can swoop
  down and find a meal.
• In a desert environment, antelope and jackrabbits
  avoid cacti after experiencing pain from bumping
  into the sharp spines.

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Inherited or Learned

• Approximately 65 of the United States population
  can roll their tongues from the sides to the
  middle.
• Right-handedness is more common than
  left-handedness in the general population.

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Inherited or Learned

• Pet ferrets often find ways to escape from their
  cages.
• To multiply fractions you have to remember to
  multiply the two numerators and the two
  denominators to find the product.