I think that "recipe" is still misleading. Both "blueprint" and "recipe" imply a linear set of instructions, though "blueprint" is worse since it implies that each elements of an organism are planned out spatially by DNA.
Not so. DNA is a fractal seed. Ideally, if you can teach someone what a fractal is (a repeating pattern that creates great complexity when instructions are modified with each iteration) then it can REALLY help explain how complex organisms can develop from such a small set of genes.
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