What does the discussion of replicators, genotypes, and phenotypes have to do with cyberspace?

In order to answer this question the three terms must be defined and understood. Replicators, genotypes, and phenotypes are biological terms for the replication of genetic material as well as names for the materials that allow computer viruses to spread online (as stated by Benjamin Woolley in "Cyberspace"). On a biological stance, the replicator (or gene) stores blueprints (DNA) for the creation of a construct (organism); the genotype is the encoded information within the gene, and the phenotype is the final result of the replication. By way of a computer network, a computer virus can be defined as a replicator, the virus program as the genotype, while the phenotype is the effect that the genotype has on the computer.
In answering the question, replicators, genotypes, and phenotypes relate to Cyberspace because they contribute to it's success. Although a computer virus is not a desirable thing to contract, it has nothing to do with the DIRECT failure of a message, program, or file from being received online, because encoded information is being received and used. Therefore, As long as a replicator moves across the beaten path of a medium, provides information to be encoded and used by a receptor, the plane in which people communicate without the limitations of physical hindrances (Cyberspace) is successful. In fact, any file, music, etc. being shared online can adopt the name "replicator," because an organism (computer) has downloaded and unlocked encrypted information (genotype) for the desired effect (phenotype) of applying the information to a program on the computer.