Question

What is a homopolymer?

• A. A polymer with uniform density throughout.
• B. A polymer with extra monomer unit other than the base unit.
• C. A polymer made out of 1 kind of monomer units.
• D. A polymer which is isotropic, i.e has same properties in all directions.

Answer 1

The correct option is C A polymer made out of 1 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.