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What is the name of a polypeptide of 50 or more amino acids with biological activity?

Protein.

What is the primary structure of an amino acid?

The particular sequence of amino acids held together by peptide bonds.

What is the first peptide to have its primary sequence discovered?

Insulin

How many chains does Insulin have? and how are they connected?

2, with disulfide bonds