This is a question thread (again). I've been pondering this one for a little while.
Given the fact that high school science has the irritating tendency to frequently dodge away from building the big, complete picture of the lessons, I've come to wonder something. DNA does nothing, as I have now been taught, but code out specific amino acids in specific orders to make proteins. What comes after that? Yay, a string of stuff! W00t!
How the hootenheimer do those proteins combine in just the correct way to make, say, a human face? Is it that their properties are so specifically accurate that they bump around like a billiard ball just so and eventually make up an organism, rather than just a quivering blob of... stuff?