A polymer consisting of four identical monomers.
tetrameric tet'ra·mer'ic (-mĕr'ĭk) adj.
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A polymer consisting of four identical monomers.
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Having four parts.
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A tetramer is a thing formed out of four sub-units. The associated propriety is called tetramery.
In chemistry, the term refers to a molecule made of four monomers (for example kobophenol A, a molecule formed from four stilbenoids monomers). In biochemistry, it may refer to tetrameric proteins.
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- Tetramerium, a genus of plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae
- Tetramery (botany), tetramerous, a plant with four component parts in each whorls of its structure
- Tetra, a prefix
- -mer, a suffix
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