Monomers

There are more ways to make a polymer out of monomers than just condensation reactions, though in living systems, condensations are ubiquitous. In some sense all of the things you mention—proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates—either ...

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... by a condensation reaction. Of these four types of molecules the carbohydrates is not always a polymer. Am I on the right track.? Then what is a monomers of each of the three macromolecules that are polymers? Looking forward to your reply. Sherry

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... alpha). There are four possible associations, two of them are the same heterodimer, so there are three distinguishable proteins, ignoring residual monomers. Sorry to mislead anyone, but this is a caveat emptor board.

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... likely, then 33.3% of the mixture should be represented by each type of dimer. I guess you can argue there are five types of proteins, the two monomers and the three dimers, but there is no way to know how many monomers are present without knowing more information (like turnover rates and association ...

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... it didn't arrise. By the way, the main constituent of wood is not cellulose, but lignin. Lignin is a branched polymer made out of some phenolic monomers, derived from the aminoacid phenylalanine.

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