Inherited Traits and Learned Characteristics

Today we discussed inherited traits and learned characteristics. Inherited traits are things we have/can do when we're born. Learned characteristics are those things we had to learn to do. We looked at a list of things a macaw is able to do, and determined if they were learned or inherited behaviors. Then we looked at lots of different pictures of various things (child rolling her tongue, color of a goldfish, freckles, ability to play an instrument) to make the distinction between inherited and learned.