A repeat unit or repeating unit (or mer) is a part of a polymer whose repetition would produce the complete polymer chain (except for the end-groups)...

polymerized into a long chain. There may be more than one structural unit in the repeat unit. When different monomers are polymerized, a copolymer is formed...

slippage results in a change of just one repeat unit, and slippage rates vary for different allele lengths and repeat unit sizes, and within different species...

simple example is polyethylene ('polythene' in British English), whose repeat unit or monomer is ethylene. Many other structures do exist; for example,...

repeats. When much larger lengths of nucleotides are repeated, on the order of 1,000 nucleotides, it is called a macrosatellite. When the repeat unit...

category of polymers that contain one or two ester linkages in every repeat unit of their main chain. As a specific material, it most commonly refers...

number of monomeric units. Some authors, however, define DP as the number of repeat units, where for copolymers the repeat unit may not be identical...

observed between microsatellite alleles are generally multiples of the repeat unit length. Satellite DNA adopts higher-order three-dimensional structures...

building the pentasaccharide repeat unit. This links the synthesis of xanthan to carbohydrate metabolism. The repeat units are built up at undecaprenylphosphate...

one or more units. In long repeats, expansions may involve two or more units. For example, insertion of a single repeat unit in GAGAGA expands the sequence...