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Condensation Reactions

A condensation reaction is a reaction that joins two molecules together with a covalent bond formed by removing a small molecule such as a water molecule.Condensation polymers are polymers formed by linking monomers with condensation reactions.Examples are polypeptides and polysaccharides.

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Specification: OCR Biology A (H020), AS-level, 2.1.2 Biological molecules. Topic: Biological Molecules.

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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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