The survival functions that are evident in a neonate are

Finding sustenance and maintaining contact is the main survival functions that are so much evident in the neonate.  Actually Kohlberg suggests that the highest stage of moral reasoning is evident when an individual acts in order to support universal principles of consciousness. 

many other transport proteins, often called pumps, move materials against a concentration gradient. active transport drives molecules across a membrane from a region of lower concentration to a region of higher concentration. this process, shown in figure 5.1, uses transport proteins powered by chemi- cal energy.