biopolymer
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Etymology
Noun
biopolymer (plural biopolymers)
- (biochemistry) Any macromolecule of a living organism that is formed from the polymerization of smaller entities; a polymer that occurs in a living organism or results from life.
- Hypernyms: polymer; biomolecule; macromolecule; molecule; compound
- Hyponyms: polynucleotide, polypeptide, polysaccharide; nucleic acid, NA, RNA, DNA; protein; starch, glycogen; cellulose, lignin
- Coordinate term: biometal
- There are three main classes of biopolymers: polynucleotides (such as RNA and DNA), polypeptides (such as collagen and actin), and polysaccharides (such as cellulose and starch).
- 2007 March 21, Susan Moran, “The new bioplastics, more than just forks”, in The New York Times:
- Products based on durable biopolymers have begun appearing in the marketplace.
- 2023 June 29, Mike Edwards, “Collaboration leads to eco-friendly straw made with polyhydroxyalkanoate”, in CPECN:
- CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.
Derived terms
Translations
polymer that occurs in a living organism
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See also
Further reading
biopolymer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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