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>>55132470
I think "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins explains what you're talking about in depth.

A bird or a bee risks its life and health to bring its offspring into the world, not to help itself and certainly not to help its species, but (unconsciously) so that its genes go on.

What stood out was Dawkins's radical insistence that the digital information in a gene is effectively immortal and must be the primary unit of selection. No other unit shows such persistence — not chromosomes, not individuals, not groups and not species. These are ephemeral vehicles for genes, just as rowing boats are vehicles for the talents of rowers (his analogy).

The true 'purpose' of DNA is to survive, no more and no less. The simplest way to explain the surplus DNA is to suppose that it is a parasite.