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.
Best Answer: A gene encodes a protein. A gene is a sequence of codon pairs that is contained on a chromosome (strand of DNA). The gene is transcribed to a piece of m-RNA, which is then used in the production of the given protein in the ribosomes. This is the classical view. In reality the genetic machinery is a lot more complex.