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I don't know if I can but I'll try. As I said you can't squeese 4 bits of data into 1 bit. Some data is very compressible and some is not. Graphics are very compressable. If a child draws a smiley face on a piece of paper and you scan it and generate a 1 MB file, you will have a very compressible file, maybe 100 to 1. If you have a tightly written piece of assembly language code for an embedded system, you will not be able to compress it very much at all. Quite possibly not at all.

Any 4 bit sequence can be squeezed into 1 bit if you have a restoring algorithm that works - it's a trivial case.

In general, graphics are notoriously incompressible without allowing for loss of data (i.e., the JPEG format).

Sure, for some tightly written assembly language code (i.e., optimized) attempts at compression are probably pointless. Is that how you would describe the DNA "code"?

With respect to your remarks about cell functions, I do not think that your conclusions are justified by your arguments.

Any 4 bit sequence can be squeezed into 1 bit if you have a restoring algorithm that works - it's a trivial case.

I don't believe you're serious but I try again. I have a 15 gallon gas tank and I want to know how much gas is in it with 1 gallon resolution and all you get is 1 bit to tell me. It works great if it's full or empty but how do you tell me I have 5 gallons? What kind of decompression algorithm is going to take 1 bit and tell me that? I'm biting my tongue here.