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Monomers are the building blocks of more complex molecules, called polymers. Polymers consist of repeating molecular units which usually are joined by covalent bonds. Here is a closer look at the chemistry of monomers and polymers.
4. What are monomers and polymers? In organic chemistry, a monomer is a molecule by itself. Monomer means âa single partâ. Some examples of organic monomers are a glucose molecule, a nucleotide, or an amino acid. Polymers are macromolecules built of two or more monomers. Polymer means âmany partsâ. Polymers are often long chains of monomers. For example, starch is a polymer. It is a long chain of glucose molecules. Proteins are polymers composed of chains of amino acids. DNA is a super- long polymer of nucleotides. Even small macromolecules like a dipeptide (two amino acids joined together) are polymers. 5. Explain the chemical reaction for building a polymer from a set of monomers.