This (b) model can be used to describe a range of activity from Shannon type
communication to biological (DNA) activity,
DNA and information have nothing to do with each other.
but I am not sure it can be applied to chemical activity.
That's what DNA is a molecule.
To my "un-informed" way
On Form Conveyed By Data
Among the terms in the question "form conveyed by data" the term "data" is
the least ambiguous.
We will doubtlessly agree that 1,2,3,... are "data"
Whether a sequence "123456...16" is in a different form to a sequence e.g.
"42315...11" is a subject of semantics.
We know