Is dna somewhat of a programming language or database
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Hard coded spaghetti.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Persistent storage with (limited) error correction.
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Both as well as all of the above answers. Sometimes it acts as instructions but at the same time it can be partly looked at like data I think. Take for example when you look for genetic markers to identify disease. But maybe it isn't like data but rather instructions. And you look for malicious code. I don't know.
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More like BIOS - so it is software...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Richard Dawkins has written about this at some length. He used a recipe and a blueprint rather than programming language and a database as his metaphors, but the point is the same: DNA is much more like instructions than it is like data. See for instance this blog[^] (can't vouch for its quality, just googled quickly and superficially it looks relevant).
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It is the ROM! Everything comes stored in it including the programs and the data.
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Literal spaghetti code! :-\
