Demosthenes had five triremes and their complements of soldiers as a garrison, and was reinforced by 40 hoplites from a Messenian ship that happened to stop at Pylos.
Individual codons code for specific amino acids. A gene is a sequence of nucleotides along a DNA strand-with 'start' and 'stop' codons and other regulatory elements-that specifies a sequence of amino acids that are linked together to form a protein.
DNA molecules. Genes are regions in the DNA that contain the instructions that code for. the formation of proteins.. o LS3.A, Inheritance of Traits, Each chromosome consists of a single very long DNA. molecule, and each gene on the chromosome is a particular segment of that DNA.