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From what you have learnt, can you tell whether enzymes are bigger or DNA is bigger in molecular size? How did you know?
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Solution
Both DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and enzymes are macromolecules. DNA is a polymer of deoxyribonucleotides, and enzymes are proteins; hence, these are polymers of amino acids. But DNA is larger in molecular size than proteins because protein synthesis is regulated by small segments of DNA, called genes, and a single DNA molecule can encode many proteins.
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