No, Monterey is in San Benito county in the Central Coast and near Carmel and Seaside. It is 3 1/2 hours from San Francisco.
Because amino acids can be arranged in many different combinations, it's possible for your body to make thousands of different kinds of protein from just the same 20 amino acids. The simplest protein of life, ribonuclease, contains 124 amino acids.
All proteins are composed of amino acids. An amino acid is any one of a class of organic compounds containing a certain amino and carboxyl group. The amino acids are the chief building blocks of proteins; that is, proteins are made by putting various amino acids together into specific combinations.