Copyright © Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.314 Animal Behavior
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Section 31.1 Basic Behaviors
Scan the titles, boldfaced words, illustrations, and captions in
Section 1. Write two facts you discovered about animal behavior.1.2.Use your book or dictionar y to define natural selection.Use the new vocabular y words to complete the paragraph below.
Any way that an animal responds to a stimulus is.
Some behaviors, such as , are genetically based.
An animal that carries out a specific set of actions, in the same order,
in response to a stimulus is exhibiting a.
Behavior that results from an interaction between genetically based
behaviors and past experiences is. An
example is , in which the response decreases after
repeated exposure to a stimulus that has no positive or
negative effects. An animal can learn to associate two different
kinds of stimuli through. Learning through
involves rewards and punishments. One
type of permanent learning, called , occurs
only within a specific time period. When an animal solves a
problem, it is exhibiting.Define inanimate to show its scientific meaning.New
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