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Bio5a Ch5
The Structure and Function of Macromolecules
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
01/17/2008
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What are peptides?

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range in length from a few monomers to more than a thousand

• has a unique linear sequence of amino acids
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what are amino acids?

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organic molecules with carboxyl and amino groups

differ in their properties due to differing side chains, called R groups

Cells use 20 amino acids to make thousands of proteins

linked by peptide bonds

A polypeptide is a polymer of amino acids
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