How are monomers, polymers, and macromolecules related to each other?
1 Answer
Dec 11, 2015
Monomer is a word made of two parts, mono means one, and mer means unit, so monomers are the building units of the polymers.Poly means many. Macromolecules are big molecules , macro means big, opposite to micro which is small. Macromolecules are polymers.
Macromolecules in biology refers to the major categories of molecules that make the cell which are the proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleic acids.