BRAINCAKEAmino-acids
Amino acids are monomers that combine to make polymers called polypeptides.
Polypeptides can be joined together to make proteins.
There are about 100 known amino-acids. 20 of them occur naturally in proteins.
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Key terms in this lesson
- monomer
- A small molecule that acts as a repeating structural unit of a larger polymer.
- polymer
- A large molecule made of many repeating monomer units joined by covalent bonds.
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