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.
It means that the old paradigm that one gene makes one protein is clearly in need of revision. Through mechanisms that include alternative splicing, one gene can direct the synthesis of many proteins. Victor A. McKusick, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says, It seems to be a matter of five or six proteins, on average, from one gene..