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9.3 Chemistry
Vocabulary Words
Question | Answer |
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polymer | a large molecule that forms when many smaller molecules are linked together by covalent bonds |
monomers | smaller molecules that join together to form a polymer |
carbohydrates | simple sugars, slightly more complex sugars such as sucrose, and polymers built from sugar monomers |
nucleic acids | large nitrogen-containing polymers found mainly in the nuclei of cells |
amino acid | a compound that contains both carboxyl and amino functional groups in the same molecule |
protein | a polymer in which at least 100 amino acid monomers are linked through bonds between an amino group and a carboxyl group |