Only vaguely. If the DNA was to be compared with our programming languages, it would be like INTERCAL, but a million times worse. Sections of the genome intera

Only vaguely. If the DNA was to be compared with our programming languages, it would be like INTERCAL, but a million times worse. Sections of the genome interact not only with the code right around them, but also with code far away, as a result of the chromosomal folding. So a section of 100 nucleotides might not do anything if you splice it out and throw various enzymes and other chemicals at it, and it might not even matter that much which nucleotides they are, but if you remove them and change the shape of the chromosome, it might not work the same way. A lot of our knowledge of genetic is limited to the things that are easy to test.