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What is a homopolymer?

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A polymer with uniform density throughout.
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A polymer with extra monomer unit other than the base unit.
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A polymer made out of one kind of monomer units.
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A polymer which is isotropic, i.e has same properties in all directions.
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Solution

The correct option is C A polymer made out of one kind of monomer units.
A homopolymer is a polymer made up of only one type of monomeric unit.
For example, polyethene is a homopolymer having ethene as the monomer. In this case, ethene molecules join together to form a repeating unit, which inturn forms the polymeric structure of polyethene as shown below.

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