It wouldn't generally be considered as either a polymer or a monomer.
Stearic acid is a long chain (18 carbons long) carboxylic acid (sometimes known as "fatty acid"). Therefore its molecules are not sufficiently long to be considered a polymer, and there is no functionality along the carbon chain to enable polymerisation to take place, therefore it would not be classed as a monomer either.
Small molecules are only referred to as "monomers" in the context of their ability to link together with many other similar molecules to form polymers.
Note that it is possible to create polymers using certain carboxylic acids, but they need to have two carboxyl groups (reaction of dicarboxylic acids with diols creates polyesters by a condensation reaction). Stearic acid only contains one carboxyl group.
No. A nucleic acid is a subunit of a [the] polymer.
monomer- glycerol/ fatty acid dimmer- n/a polymer - lipid
a polymer.
polymer
DNA is a polymer
No. A nucleic acid is a subunit of a [the] polymer.
(Carbohydrate) Monomer- glucose and fructose Polymer- such as starch (Lipids) Monomer- such as fatty acid Polymer- diglycerides and triglycerides (Proteins) Monomer- amino acid Small polymer- Peptides Long polymer- egg protien (Nucleic acid) Monomer- cytosine, quinine, adenine, thymine, and uracil Polymer- DNA and RNA
No. Cellulose and glucose. Protein is the polymer and amino acid is the monomer.
Pectinase is an amino acid polymer, aka a protein.
amino acid and starch
an amino acid is a monomer.. it joins together to form a dipeptide.. which joins together to form a polypeptide polypeptide - otherwise known as a polymer
Nucleic acid is a polymer. The monomer of it is a nucleotide.
The monomer is the individual amino acid following the amino acid assignation (NH2CHCOOHR) where the R group determines which amino acid it is - and is the variable unit.
The monomer is the individual amino acid following the amino acid assignation (NH2CHCOOHR) where the R group determines which amino acid it is - and is the variable unit.
an amino acid is a monomer.. it joins together to form a dipeptide.. which joins together to form a polypeptide polypeptide - otherwise known as a polymer
proteins can be considered to be polymer of amino acids
monomer