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A comment on DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014). Parent comment

Re:DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014) by hirsin on Saturday August 21, 2021 @05:37PM (#28260793)
As an analogy - DNA is source code. The first arrow is the parser and creates RNA that is a reflection of the DNA. The second arrow (RNA to protein) is the compiler, taking the parsed code (RNA) and generating a program (protein) from it.

At no point is the source code consumed to create the program, akin to DNA.

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