And it also doesn't contain all of the source code and the error correction is when it tries to copy itself? I mean, just thinking of it as a type of biological source code that makes more of itself with mistakes and is messy is a decent enough analogy, and again I think most of these are fine just to be able to know as a layperson "oh right, DNA is that thing that has a lot of information about what the living thing is going to be like." You don't really need to know more than that day to day as long as other people do - I don't know how to fix my car but i know there are people out there that know how it works. If you are going to be more involved with it or want to know more about it for whatever reason though it's maybe worth diving into the bio 101 stuff then.
