DNA Is Not a Blueprint: How Genes Really Work (2012)

The DNA is not the blueprint of life; rather, it contains many of the basic codes and signals for the development of an organism. At its core DNA contains the basic information needed to assemble molecules called “proteins,” which are the building blocks of our bodies, and it also acts to regulate how and where different proteins are made and used.

That text is inaccurate at best.

The DNA contains information that is used in order to make RNA molecules through a highly regulated process known as transcription.   That’s it.

The DNA information includes -besides the actual sequences that make the transcribed RNA molecules- control codes known as promoters, enhancers, TF binding sites (landing pads), etc.  BTW, the transcription is done by cellular machines that operate on the DNA. The DNA by itself couldn’t do much, if anything at all.

Those transcribed RNA molecules are used in order to make proteins or to serve as regulatory signals. or as components of cellular machines.

A substantial amount of information that is needed for the cells to work resides outside the DNA.

They should be careful using “the” in their statements. When one says: this is THE medicine needed to cure the CoViD-19, it’s understood that this is it. We should use either “a” or “some” instead of “the”.

Some basic English grammar knowledge could help that author to write his pop-sci articles.