A homopolymer has only one type of building block called monomer repeated ' 
' number of times. A heteropolymer has more than one type of monomer. Proteins are heteropolymers usually made of:
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Proteins are heteropolymers made of about 20 different kinds of monomer, i.e., amino acids. Each of these amino acids is made up of carbon, amino group, carboxyl group, hydrogen and a R-functional group. This variable R-group is what that makes each monomer different from one another.
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