information in an organism 's chromosomes cause genetic traits to be passed down to that organism 's offspring & cow is a kind of organism ->  information in a cow's chromosomes cause genetic traits to be passed down to the offspring  producing large quantities of milk is an inherited trait for cows & inherited trait is a kind of genetic trait ->  producing large quantities of milk in a genetic trait for cows  information in a cow's chromosomes cause genetic traits to be passed down to the offspring & producing large quantities of milk in a genetic trait for cows -> the trait of producing large quantities of milk is passed down through the information in the cow's chromosomes