A short peptide on complete hydrolysis produces 3 moles of glycine (G), two moles of leucine (L) and two moles of valine (V) per mole of peptide. The number of peptide linkages in it are .

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By thoroughly analyzing the hydrolysis products, one mole of the peptide yields  total moles of constituent individual amino acids. This indicates it is specifically a heptapeptide (a linear chain exclusively composed of 7 amino acids).
In any standard linear peptide comprised of  amino acid residues, the exact number of connecting peptide linkages uniformly required natively is simply . 
Thus, the number of peptide bonds is .

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