Chapter 33.1, Problem 2CYP

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The behavior is based on the environment or genetics.

Introduction:

For a behavior to be primarily based on genetics it has to be inherited from one generation to the other, while for it to be based on the environment it has to be an immediate response to external stimuli from the environment. The experimental field that studies the way the genetics can affect the behavior is named behavioral epigenetics, while the field that studies the way the environment can affect is more related to the field of neuroscience.