1. Inherited, Learned and Acquired Traits and Behaviors

2. Inherited Traits Characteristics passed from parent to offspring
Big, small
Fur, no fur
Eye color
Etc.

3. Instinct (a type of Inherited Trait)
Behaviors passed from parent to offspring; something you are born knowing to do; no one taught them to you.
Breathing
Running away from a giant cougar that just walked into the classroom
Being scared of animals that growl
Being afraid of the dark (you are just trying to protect yourself, after all)
A cockroach running when the lights are turned on.
A butterfly trying to get nectar from a flower (it’s parents did not raise it!!)

4. Learned Behaviors
Any behavior learned from parents or from own experiences.
Using a potty instead of the floor
How to turn on the projector in the classroom
How to use a doggy door
Scratching on the door to get your owner to let you out of the house (if there isn’t a doggy door)

5. Acquired Traits
characteristics that organisms don’t inherit or learn. They are traits they get because something happened to them.
Tattoos
Body piercings
Broken bones
Scars
Cuts
Removed limbs during from a war wound
Hair cuts

6. Inherited, Learned, or neither?
The colors of the coral
Inherited

7. Inherited, Learned, or neither?
The horse runs in races, pulling carriages
Learned

8. Inherited, Learned, or neither?
Incredibly large muscles
Neither: Acquired (they had to build their muscles after birth)

9. Inherited, Learned, or neither?
Dolphins jump on command
Learned

10. Inherited, Learned, or neither?
Captain Hook’s hook/missing hand
Neither: Acquired

11. Inherited, Learned, or neither? AND find an acquired trait.
Her eye color
Inherited