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Re:What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics by BitwiseFool on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:33PM (#22764582)
I recommend Crash Course's youtube series on biology. Specifically this video about DNA and replication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kK2zwjRV0M

In very broad terms, the segments of code in DNA/RNA acutally provide a template for specific molecules and enzymes.

Re:What's a virus, anyway? The bare-bones basics by tcgv on Thursday April 02, 2020 @07:47PM (#22765052)
So, from a CS point of view, I guess instead of comparing DNA to procedurally executed machine code we should be comparing it to the source code of a set of classes, which once instantiated produces specific proteins that perform all sorts of biological tasks in our bodies.