DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08758.002 An animal may perform a particular movement in response to its environment and internal state, and many movements are selected from a repertoire of stereotyped motor patterns.
When an animal is confronted with a conspecific of the same or opposite sex, a decision-making process is engaged: an optimal response must be selected from a repertoire of social behaviors which includes aggression, courtship behaviors, and affiliative behaviors, amongst others.
The theory states that an antigen entering the body does not induce the formation of an antibody specific to itself as some immunologists believed but instead it binds to one unique antibody selected from a vast repertoire of antibodies produced early in the organism's life.
Finally, customers select from an array of flavors.
Moreover, animals presented with multiple stimuli generally select a single behavioral strategy from a repertoire of possible responses.
In Chinese opera and in Japanese Kabuki, melodies appropriate to scene, action, character, or mood being portrayed are selected from a standard musical repertoire of several hundred tunes.
Animals prioritize behaviors according to their physiological needs and reproductive goals, selecting a single behavioral strategy from a repertoire of possible responses to any given stimulus.
