Which of the following best describes how an organism inherits physical characteristics, such as eye color, from their parents? Offspring receive alleles from their parents, each allele contained genes, each gene contains , , chromosomes that determine the appearance of an organism. G Offspring receive chromosomes from their parents, each chromosome contains genes, each gene contains alleles that determine the appearance of an organism. Offspring receive chromosomes from their parents, each chromosome contains alleles, each allele contains genes that determine the appearance of an organism. 3 Offspring receive genes from their parents, each gene contains chromosomes, each chromosome contains alleles that determine the appearance of an organism.