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.
And what about proteins that have exact similar properties but different amino acids combinations. For instance, let's take hemoglobin. It generally has 146 amino acids, but not all them are essential for the protein to be functional. So, if we a ask a question as to how many different amino acids are necessary for the protein to be known as the  hemoglobin  protein, then the answer depends on many things. Whenever changes in amino acid affects the physical structure of protein molecule, the affected protein becomes inactive.