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All organisms need instructions to specify their traits. The instructions, or code, that is responsible for all the inherited traits of an organism
A.
is passed from the offspring to the parent.
B.
is held in genetic material called DNA.
C.
is stored within the mitochondria of cells.
D.
is formed after an organism is fully grown.

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B. is held in genetic material called DNA.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) contains the genes that encode the inherited traits of an organism; these genes are located on chromosomes in the cell nucleus.