Mega-language, or Meta-language?... Language in "codes" is almost a hinderance to understanding.. For how are the codes decrypted?.. A proper metaphor bridges language(dialect) and culture.. Little wonder Jesus communicated mostly in metaphor.. not only but mostly.. Metaphor speaks words about something(s) but is talking about something else.. A language of mental images.. even the blind can see..
In reading often I can see Mega-phors, Micro-phors, and Macro-phors.. I wonder If DNA/rna is like that, Metaphorical in construct.. i.e. A language on top of a language.. as a metaphor is greater than the words used.. Groups of "words" used to express "something else" than the words say..
I must consider this.. not that I care a wit about DNA, but generally about communication information and processing of data... But the DNA angle has leggs..
a good metaphor, I believe.
My guess is that DNA is a group of words which inform how to re-arrange those same words into different meaningful sentences.
Something like - in the simplest construction: "FIRST LAST" which instructs itself to become "LAST FIRST" which instructs itself to become "FIRST LAST" again. Expand that to the 'word count' of DNA and you can have an incredibly complex 'machine'
and note to betty boop - even 1% difference between us and higher apes (which I think was based on excluding all the 'junk DNA' which it turns out should have been counted) can result in a 99% different 'functioning' of that DNA.