For carbohydrates they are monosaccharides. For proteins,amino acids. For lipids glycerol and fatty acids. For nucleic acids nucleotides.
It is called a monomer. Monomers together form polymer.
monomer
a polymer.
The basic building block for a polymer is a monomer which are rather smaller than the resultant polymer.
polymer
polymer
DNA is a polymer
Polymer
If starch is the polymer, then the monomer is glucose, which is a monosaccharide. Starch is a polysaccharide that is made up of glucose molecules.
There is no antonym for polymer
monomer (monosaccharide)
Definitely a polymer. Protein is made of many monomers of amino acids.