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What should you call a chain of eight amino acids? A chain of 200 amino acids?

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The question asked about the name of an eight amino acid and a chain containing 200 amino acids.

Let us remember that a peptide contains one or more amino acids. While, the polypeptide has many amino acids. And the protein is composed of polypeptide.

Based on the given the eight amino acid chain is named as peptide. And the 200 amino acid chain is called polypeptide.

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