Some monomers on the other hand are synthetic. Glucose and related sugars.

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Monomers form polymers by forming chemical bonds or binding supramolecularly through a process called polymerization.

What are monomers made of. Each monomer may link in different ways to form a variety of polymers. Four types of nucleotide monomers are precursors to dna and four different nucleotide monomers are precursors to rna. Glucose vinyl chloride amino acids and ethylene are examples of monomers.

Nucleotides which are found in the cell nucleus polymerize to form dna and rna. The essential feature of a monomer is polyfunctionality the capacity to form chemical bonds to at least two other monomer molecules. Monomers may be classified as hard soft or reactive based on the properties they confer on the final polymer or copolymer.

Polynucleotides are long polymers made up of linear arrays of monomers called nucleotides consisting of nitrogen bases pyrimidines and purines linked to sugar phosphate. Nucleotide monomers are found in the cell nucleus. Sometimes polymers are made from bound groups of monomer subunits up to a few dozen monomers called oligomers.

A common man made monomer is vinyl chloride. Glucose and related sugars. For polynucleic acids dna rna the monomers are nucleotides each of which is made of a pentose sugar a nitrogenous base and a phosphate group.

Amino acids for instance are natural monomers that can polymerize to form proteins. Monomer a molecule of any of a class of compounds mostly organic that can react with other molecules to form very large molecules or polymers. In the case of glucose for example glycosidic bonds may link sugar monomers to form such polymers as glycogen starch and cellulose.

Names for small monomers. Hard monomers are for example methyl methacrylate styrene and vinyl acetate. The monomer units of dna are formally called deoxynucleotides.