(July 8, 2017 at 8:25 am)Khemikal Wrote: . People who say "dna is like a computer program" have that comparison entirely backwards. It's not even a very apt comparison, since dna isn't so much a computer program as it is a machine language.
No.
You are falling into a trap.
DNA is not a set of instructions or code.
It is a chemical.
The DNA "code" is the description of a (very large and complex) molecule.
If you start to say that it is machine code (which is a form of programming language) then you open yourself to the question "who wrote the code?".
DNA is a molecule and everything that happens with it is chemistry.
Regards.
Grimesy
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