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What are polymers?

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Poly- means many, so like a string of pearls, a polymer is a string of chemically bonded monomers: amino acids in proteins, sugars in polysaccharides, strands of nylon and polyacetate, polypropylene, and let us not neglect or omit DNA [polynucleotides] and Rna.

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