JS prototypes

Question 1

What kind of inheritance does the JavaScript programming language use?

Answer 1

prototypal- inheritance- prototype-based or class-based

Question 2

What is a prototype in JavaScript?

Answer 2

the mechanism/ a template by which JavaScript objects inherit features from one another.

Question 3

How is it possible to call methods on strings, arrays, and numbers even though those methods don’t actually exist on objects, arrays, and numbers?

Answer 3

because there is a prototype template set for each of those datatypes that contain those methods

Question 4

If an object does not have it’s own property or method by a given key, where does JavaScript look for it?

Answer 4

in the prototypes