 Read physically, this means only that the structure of the DNA molecule is not reproduced from the structure of proteins, a perfectly reasonable account of the molecular processes. However, because Crick used the word “information”, some scientists, including Dawkins, took this to mean that genes are informational entities, which “code” for organismic traits from the molecular level up to the entire organism and even beyond. This is striking in a purple passage of The Blind Watchmaker, where Dawkins describes genes as follows: