What is a polymer made of bonded amino acids called?

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Joëlle
Nov 15, 2015

Peptide or protein

Explanation:

Amino acids are monomers that can be linked forming peptide bonds, this is a condensation reaction (water is eliminated). Polymers that consist of up to (the arbitrary number of) 50 amino acids are called peptides, larger polymers are called proteins.

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