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Number of peptide bonds fomed by two amino acids is/are :

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Number of peptide bonds = Number of amino acids1
For example, when glycine and alanine, the two amino acids form a dipeptide (called glycylalanine), have only one peptide bond in between them which is formed by COOH group of glycine and NH2 group of alanine as shown below:
Hence 1 is correct.

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