CONCEPT #3: How is DNA important in genetic engineering?

DNA is a ‘universal language’, meaning the genetic code means the same thing in all organisms. It
would be like if all cookbooks around the world were written in a single language that everyone
knew. This characteristic is critical to the success of genetic engineering. When a gene for a
desirable trait is taken from one organism and inserted into another, it gives the ‘recipient’
organism the ability to express that same trait