Sidney Brenner Argued That the Code Was Nonoverlapping Because He

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Sidney Brenner argued that the code was nonoverlapping because he considered that coding restrictions would occur if it were overlapping.A second major argument against an overlapping code involved the effect of a single nucleotide change.In an overlapping code,how many adjacent amino acids would be affected by a point mutation? In a nonoverlapping code,how many amino acid(s)would be affected?