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Chromatin, not just DNA. Anyway, the "code" category is too simple to describe what is actually happening. There is a sort of nanoscale industrial cyber-bio-physical-chemical plant/factory/machinery/complex within each cell. If you consider CS-stuff as an analogy, you might miss the 'physical-chemical' aspect of it all. Like, you know, you would not call an autonomous android with embedded micro chemical facility just a computer or server. Yes it is also a computer, yes it runs some code, but it is moving, it is chemically very active, it has sort of initiative capabilities. cs analogies are way too barren.