I have a microbiology degree and an EE degree (but more like comp E). DNA truly is a blue print. (almost) Every cell in your body has the source code for your

I have a microbiology degree and an EE degree (but more like comp E). DNA truly is a blue print. (almost) Every cell in your body has the source code for your entire body. "this gene or set of genes are responsible for that outcome" is generally going to be a true statement. The equivalent wouldnt necessarily be a processor instruction. If you wanted an analogy, a cell is like an entire minimal computer. Power supply, processor, memory, and I/O. Each computer can run different parts of the code, but every computer has the entire code base. Within the computer are specialized "organelles" for storage, graphics, network, etc. These are comparable to organelles such as mitochondria, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum etc. DNA acts like code in that it produces outputs (messages) and receives inputs. Proteins are also like code in that they produce outputs and receive inputs. It might be that DNA is like the executable source code that is stored as files and proteins are more like in memory processes such as services and actively running programs that get spawned from the files to perform various tasks. Viruses are like hostile code in bound in an email or coming through as tainted packets. They cant actually do anything on their own - they are inert, but once the processor starts executing the code, they hijack the processor. Sometimes to spawn more malicious code to other computers in a trusted network To carry the analogy further, departments in a company are a bit like organs. The computers in that department all roughly do the same thing. Imagine if IT imaged every computer in the company the exact same way, but what software was actually used would be based on your department.