Code as an Analogy of DNA?

[Timothy_Horton]

@Mark

ASCII is a code because when you press the letter “A” on your keyboard, your keyboard encodes it as “1000001,” sends it down the cable and into your computer, and your computer then decodes the “1000001” to display the letter “A” on your screen.
In the same way, DNA is a code (304, 318) because the codons on DNA strands are encoded into messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) and decoded into amino acids and proteins (326).

Sorry but that is just wrong. ASCII uses symbols as abstract representations of the information to be passed. There is no abstraction in DNA → protein process, none at all. It’s just a complex chemical reaction following the laws of chemistry and physics. If you don’t believe it, try creating a gene from Lego or Tinkertoys, see if if produces a Lego or Tinkertoy amino acid.