Polypeptides

• what are polypeptides

  many amino acids joined together by peptide bonds
• true or false: polypeptides are monomers

  false -> they're polymers + amino acids are the monomers
• what do polypeptides form

  proteins
• what do all proteins have

  • a primary structure (1°)
  • a secondary structure (2°)
• what do some proteins have

  • a tertiary structure (3°)
• what do proteins occasionally have

  • a quaternary structure (4°)
• what does the primary structure refer to

  • the number + sequence of amino acids
  • in a polypeptide chain