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Proteins are called as polypeptides because they consist of large number of α-amino acids that are linked together into a long chain by means of peptide linkages.

A polypeptide with more than hundred ά-amino acid residues having molecular weight greater than 10,000 is called a protein.
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It is because the proteins contain a linear chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
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