A proper understanding of logical fallacies will improve the quality of debate

Well, if you insist, but you must be aware then that these aren't present in DNA; they're present only in our representations ("ATGC") of DNA. DNA doesn't actually contain letters; it contains chemical structures that we describe with letters. It doesn't contain "syntax", our representations of it do. DNA no more has syntax than a snowflake encodes the number "6".DNA isn't a "code", we represent it as a code. What DNA is is a chemical structure that, when it reacts with another chemical structure, produces a third chemical structure.

But it is. On the other side of my body. No, it's not. What is used is the fact that an aminoacyl- tRNA has a binding anticodon that is three bases long. It doesn't say "AUG" on the end of it; it has the bases adenine, uracil, and guanine and those form hydrogen bonds with the bases cytosine, adenine, and uracil at the A site of the ribosome.When we represent that process using letters like A, U, or G, when we describe that stochastic chemical process as a "code", that's when DNA has "syntax." Not at all. There are many things that are not "codes" that nonetheless require specific relationships in space, exclude some configurations, and produce something different when you scramble them. Freeze ice in one way and it forms the traditional hexagonal crystal. Freeze the exact same water somewhere else, under slightly different conditions, and now ice forms in the extremely rare cubic crystal. Freeze it under different circumstances and it adopts a third completely different form. But ice doesn't contain "syntax", codes, or pragmatic meaning about ice crystals - it simply follows physical laws. Chemical laws.DNA doesn't have codes or syntax, but the ways that we describe it do. Our representations of DNA have code and syntax because they're for human use. DNA is simply a chemical that follows chemical laws. I'm not saying that DNA doesn't contain information. I'm saying that DNA doesn't contain information as you have chosen to define it. DNA doesn't contain codes, syntax, or meaning. Our representations of DNA are full of meaning.