All information that an animal needs to live is stored in its

The nucleic acid- DNA and RNA acts as genetic or heredity material of the organism. It acts as the genetic material of the cell as it can store the information required for the cell to maintain its life in coded form.

In the given case, since the cell is a eukaryote, its genetic material is DNA which acts as the genetic material of the cell. The information of the animal cell is stored in the form of codons which are triplets of the nitrogenous bases arranged in the coding region of the genome called genes.

It is these codons which code for the specific amino acids which bind with each other to form proteins. These proteins serve important functions of the cell from a catalytic role to the structural component.

Thus, DNA is the correct answer.