Heritable Adaptive Behavior
In opposition to nonheritable adaptive behavior, organisms can also possess heritable adaptive behaviors. These are behaviors that are encoded in their genes and passed down from their parents. This gives different biological species the ability to respond to situations with a built-in response mechanism. Using this mechanism, they can respond to their external environment in an appropriate manner.
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