Answer the following question given this paragraph: 

Characteristics that are encoded in DNA are called genetic traits . Different types of human traits are inherited in different ways. Some human traits have simple inheritance patterns like the traits that Gregor Mendel studied in pea plants. Other human traits have more complex inheritance patterns.


Q: Genetic traits are characteristics encoded in what?

 Choices:

- nuclei

- bacteria

- rna

- dna

A:
dna
