When trying to understand how nucleotides would code for amino acids, why did researchers predict that each "word" in the

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When trying to understand how nucleotides would code for amino acids, why did researchers predict that each "word" in the genetic code would contain three bases, what we refer to as codons?

There are 64 different amino acids that needed to be coded for, which three nucleotides can accomplish.

Having codons of three nucleotides would enable more amino acids to be coded for if they were to be encountered.

Three nucleotides could specify 64 different codons, enough to code for all 20 amino acids and punctuation

Codons of just two nucleotides would mean frameshifts could not occur.

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