I 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" y

I 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.