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I am currently studying from note cards created throughout the year for study prep for comps. I have listed on one note card that cellulose and chitin are structural polysaccharides yet chitin is made of modified amino acids for a monomer. Is this correct?


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Yes. The modification in chitin makes the monomer n-acetylglucosamine, so its a glucose-modified amine. Hence the confusion.

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