There is another difference. Having two copies of the set "Where are the bananas?" adds no new information in English. However in genetics, genes and DNA sequences are also raw materials. Having multiple copies of the same sequence does add functionality. It provides additional raw materials that can be modified to produce new traits without losing the function of the original.
The IDists and Biblical Creationists love to try to make comparisons to language, but when they are examined all that I have seen simply do not stand up to examination. Even something as simple as word order is specific to a given language so that in Latin the phrase "Cat house" has much the same meaning as "House cat".
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