A type of
polymer (large
molecule which consists of a chain of similar smaller
molecules called
monomers) where all of the
monomers are the same thing. For example, a
polypeptide which consists entirely of the
amino acid lysine linked end to end, instead of many different
amino acids linked end to end, would be a
homopolymer.
From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.