Question

Proteins are heteropolymers of ______

(a) lipids

(b) monosaccharides

(c) peptides

(d) amino acids

The question was posed to me in an internship interview.

This is a very interesting question from Biomolecules in section Biomolecules of Biology – Class 11

Answer 1

Right answer is (d) amino acids

To explain I would say: Proteins are heteropolymers made of amino acid monomers. There are 21 amino acids. Various numbers and combinations of amino acids in a sequence or chain forms different types of proteins.