Consider the question. What passes traits from parents to offspring?
Options:
- (A) Birth certificate
- (B) Lactation
- (C) p53
- (D) HIV
- (E) RNA
- (F) Pedigree
- (G) SNPs
- (H) DNA
 What is the step-by-step reasoning process to arrive at the answer: (H)?

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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Characteristics that are encoded in DNA are called genetic traits. DNA is used to transmit characteristics from parents to offspring. DNA passes traits from parents to offspring.