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a homopolymer has only one type of building block called monomer repeated "n" number of times. A heteropolymer has more than one type monomer. Proteins are heteropolymer made of aminoacid. While a nucleic acid like DNA and RNA is made of only 4 types of nucleotide monomers, proteins are made of:

A

20 types of monomers

B

40 types of monomers

C

3 types of monomers

D

only one type of monomer

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