It takes far more than DNA to recreate a human.
@WalterBright, I've always preferred the idea that to explore the stars the only chance we have at doing so is by bio-growing humans (cloned?), and somehow uploading and downloading a current humans consciousness into the form.
basically 'seeding the universe' since we would just start sending little seeds of human life everywhere. :-)
… and all the devices and nutrition necessary to sustain that Terran life until it can become self sufficient—without the help of preexisting humans to teach them or impart physical skills—on a rock with either no life, inhospitable life, or nutritionally incompatible life.
You might as well call that device a magic wand.
With today's technology, sure.
I never thought I'd live to see AI. But here it is.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Clarke