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DNA is a machine. It encodes information, but it also lives and breathes through interaction with various TFs, methylation events, packing, etc. There many type
by possibilistic 13y ago
DNA is a machine. It encodes information, but it also lives and breathes through interaction with various TFs, methylation events, packing, etc. There many types of epigenetic "state information".
We've known this for a looong time, it's just that it's so damned complex that we have trouble grappling with it.
And let's not forget the rest of the cell and all of the information encoded at the protein/messenger level.
- atmosx 13y agoI think it's more appropriate to say that the DNA is a storage medium. A pretty awesome storage medium: ~700 terabytes can be stored 1g of DNA. The "machine" you are referring two, can be a set of enzyme complexes which performs the DNA transcription, as you said at the messenger RNA level.