i) Amino acids
ii) Phosphorus
Proteins as macromolecules
Proteins are macromolecules whose building units are amino acids. In other words, proteins are polymers whose monomers are amino acids.
Since the antibiotics work by breaking down the cell wall proteins of the bacteria according to the passage, it means that the proteins will be broken down to their component amino acids.
Thus, the monomers that the researchers should be looking for in the phagocyte should be amino acids.
Amino acids are themselves made from elements such as nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. Thus, the only element the researchers are not expected to find if they examine the monomers will be phosphorus.
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