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.
1 They are called variable groups. 2  There are 20 different variable groups --- so there are 20 different amino acids. 3  So what I am trying to say is that the basic structure of all amino acids is the same except for the variable group (R) spot.