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All foods we eat are made of the same basic component. What major molecule is said to be the backbone of all other larger molecules used in living cells?

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Food provides the body with the nutrients it needs to survive. Many of these critical nutrients are biological macromolecules, or large molecules, necessary for life. These macromolecules (polymers) are built from different combinations of smaller organic molecules (monomers). What specific types of biological macromolecules do living things require? How are these molecules formed? What functions do they serve? In this chapter, these questions will be explored

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The major molecule that is said to be the backbone of all other large molecules in living cells would be the monomers.

Large macromolecules are made from the combination of smaller macromolecules. While the former are referred to as polymers, the latter are known as monomer units.

For example, proteins is a macromolecule that is formed from amino acids. units linked together by peptide bonds. Starch found in living cells are polymers of monosaccharides such as glucose and fructose. Monomers of lipids are fatty acids and glycerol while nucleic acids are polymers of nucleotides.

Polymers are formed from monomers by addition or condensation polymerization reactions.

More on polymerization can be found here: https://brainly.com/question/3200802

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