Transcript Learned and Inherited Traits

Learned and Inherited Traits
Traits
(characteristics and behaviors)
• Inherited
Learned
• Response to Environment
• Taught
Father
Practiced
Mother
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Bird or Bat: How and Why
Bird Traits
Bat Traits
Inherited
Learned
Inherited
Learned
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.