If DNA is like source code, then it is really interesting the way one gene is unzipped in order to unlock other genes. Maybe it's a sort of encryption/decrypti

If DNA is like source code, then it is really interesting the way one gene is unzipped in order to unlock other genes. Maybe it's a sort of encryption/decryption process, at the same time having the properties of a "program" running to perform actions on itself. That would make it the ultimate "self-modifying" system, which I imagine would be really hard to reason about and debug. Do you suppose DNA embodies the old idea that data is code and code data? Wouldn't it be something if the DNA scheme turned out to be sort of like Scheme. Apparently DNA is recursive in a sense, maybe it's also homoiconic. I'm going to stop here now, I'm starting to get myself very confused.