Explain how monomers are used to build proteins?

The monomers of proteins (amino acids) are assembled by dehydration synthesis reactions, resulting in the formation of peptide bonds between adjacent amino acids.

Proteins are made from monomers called amino acids, linked by peptide bond.

Biology exploits the polymerization of small monomers into polymers. Hence, proteins, also called polypeptides, are made of hundreds of amino acids joined by peptide bonds. Polysaccharides are polymers of sugars. And nucleic acids, e.g. DNA and RNA, are made up of many individual nucleotides connected by phosphodiester bonds. In each case the large macromolecule is made by stringing together hundreds of linearly bonded monomers, over and over, instead of making one gigantic, complex molecule from hundreds of thousands of individual atoms

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