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Mistake Master · AP Biology · Unit 8 · Step-Through Animation

Just What Animals Do?

You'll learnthat a behavior is a heritable trait natural selection acts on, like anatomy.

A goose flies south on schedule, with nobody to teach it the route. Call that “just what geese do” and you have made the costliest mistake in this topic: a behavior is a trait, exactly like beak shape, and this is the story of how natural selection tunes one. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.

12 STEPS · 6 QUICK CHECKS · BEHAVIOR IS A HERITABLE TRAIT · VARIES → HERITABLE → SELECTED · v6

one behavior · the full selection machine · no individual changes
Before you start
What you're looking at
A goose that flies south each autumn — one behavior, drawn as one animal and one arrow.
The question
Is a behavior just what animals do, or a trait that varies, is inherited, and is selected?
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