Wednesday, 1 January 2020

biochemistry - Is a fatty acid a polymer?


From my understanding, polymers are long chain molecules containing repeating units of monomers.



For example, proteins are polymers called polypeptides with repeating units of (different) amino acids. Therefore, a fatty acid, saturated or unsaturated, would classify as a polymer as they are long chain molecules with repeating units of alkyl monomers?




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