You are excited because your lab is studying the first microorganisms retrieved from mars! interestingly, their genetic material consists of a single-stranded nucleic acid with six different nitrogenous bases. like organisms from earth, segments of the nucleic acid contain the code for making proteins. your experiments indicate that a single deletion in the nucleotide chain almost always leads to loss of function in the coded protein. however, when you make two deletions very close together, the protein usually functions normally. based on these results, you conclude that the genetic code in these organisms is read in groups of nucleotides. (enter your answer as a numeral not a word,
e. g. use 5 not five.)