Sidney Brenner proved that the triplet code is, in fact, nonoverlapping. Assuming a nonoverlapping code, how many complete codons would the following sequence encode before encountering a stop codon? 5? - AUGCGAUUAUAGUGC - 3?

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3 (AUG CGA UUA UAG)

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