Does Airport Express 'g' slow down an 'n' Base Station network?

I've got a network of 2 computers and a printer on an Airport Extreme 'n' Base Station. I've recently added the original Airport Express ('g') to that network to take advantage of AirTunes. Do I compromise the speed of the network by introducing a slower device into it?
If so, is there different behavior for wired vs. wireless connections? My laptop is wireless, my MacPro does not have Airport and is hardwired to the network.
I want to buy another Airport Extreme for another room. The new one will be 'n' so there would be two AE's connected, each different. Will everything run to it's maximum potential?

And I take it all this does not affect the speed for the Ethernet connected components?
Assuming there's no intervening wireless connection, yes.
PS - Lazarus describes nicely how a b/g/n base station should work, ideally, but as he implies, "dual-band" doesn't mean "two transceivers" necessarily ("two antennas", yes). As I understand it, the 802.11n spec requires that the device also be capable of b/g operation, so it would have to be able to transceive at 2.4 and 5 GHz -- but perhaps not at the same time, so maybe one transceiver is enough.
In any case, I've seen posts that agree with Chris Brown's description of how the AEBSn behaves.

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