[barryrandall]

You could, but DNA is a terrible "language." It's unreliable , degrades over time, accumulates and perpetuates errors, and if you use instructions in an order the compiler doesn't like, you'll get origami (loops, hairpins) instead of a program.

[mensetmanusman]

It replicates for millennia, it uses air to build plants, it self repairs, it contains the code for its operating system.