[spwa4]

> By that token normal reproduction qualifies as immortality ...

As a kind of immortality, yes. It's not even just DNA, it's actual cells that were part of the individual that stay alive beyond any age limit.

Does it keep the full individual organism alive? No.

[Retric]

My point is because it doesn’t qualify at the organism or cellular level this doesn’t either.

> actual cells that were part of the individual that stay alive beyond any age limit

Neither the egg or sperm or egg cell survive to birth. Only descendent cells with wildly different DNA do.