An Athenian fleet had been driven ashore at Pylos by a storm, and, at the instigation of Demosthenes, the Athenian soldiers fortified the peninsula, and a small force was left there when the fleet departed again.
According to the official Guidelines for Human Gene Nomenclature, a gene is defined as a DNA segment that contributes to phenotype/function. In the absence of demonstrated function a gene may be characterized by sequence, transcription or homology.. Genes are composed of DNA, a molecule in the memorable shape of a double helix, a spiral ladder. Each rung of the spiral ladder consists of two paired chemicals called bases.
This contains all of our genes. DNA, itself is made up of four chemical bases, pairs of which form the rungs of the twisted, ladder-shaped DNA molecules. These four molecules are adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), and guanine (G). All genes are made up of stretches of these four bases (arranged in different ways and in different lengths). Photo: National Institute of Health. A critical feature of DNA is the ability of the nucleotides to make specific pairs: .