When scientists were attempting to determine the structure of the genetic code, Crick and coworkers found that when three base additions or three base deletions occurred in a single gene, the wild-type phenotype was sometimes restored

These data supported the hypothesis that ________.
A) the code is triplet
B) AUG is the initiating triplet
C) the code contains internal punctuation
D) there are three amino acids per base
E) the code is overlapping


A

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