DNA: the stuff of life. Well, not really, despite the hype. DNA does contain the instructions to make a lot of the stuff of life (proteins), although again, not all the stuff of life. At least not dir...DNA: the stuff of life. Well, not really, despite the hype. DNA does contain the instructions to make a lot of the stuff of life (proteins), although again, not all the stuff of life. At least not directly. Deoxyribonucleic acid (and its very close cousin ribonucleic acid, or RNA) is a very long chain polymer. You may recall that a polymer is just a really big molecule made by connecting many small similar molecules together).
