I still find the analogy mostly appropriate. Perhaps, it is not the 'high level source code' that is strictly typed as was perhaps believed by some, but I think

I still find the analogy mostly appropriate. Perhaps, it is not the 'high level source code' that is strictly typed as was perhaps believed by some, but I think it can still act as analogous to the runtime memory state of the computer. The genes are like memory mapped services which can operate on one another and change their state, and this couples with interrupts from the external environment that force changes to the state and memory, but the runtime code adapts and still has access to in-memory functions to call when appropriate, but every so often a buffer overflow can occur or be enticed and this causes other issues.