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Are complex sugars that are stored. Glycogen is the way that sugar is stored in animals, starch is the way that sugar is stored in plants.
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What type of polysaccharide is found in potatoes?
Starch is found potatoes, not Glycogen. Glycogen is the plant equivalent of animal glycogen. A potato has starch but no glycogen; muscle cells have glycogen but no starch. The starch we eat is broken into glucose in the stomach/small intest and then reassembled in the muscle cells as glycogen.
Is your body capable of converting starch into glycogen?
Glycogen. Starch is exclusive to plant storage of carbohydrates.
What is the another term for an animal starch?
Glycogen is the proper name for animal starch. It is stored int the livers and muscles of animals. It can also be found in certain kinds of fungi and bacteria.
What is glycogen and which group it belongs to?
Glycogen is animal starch and is a polysaccharide.
How you will define glycogen?
Glycogen is the body's storage of energy. It is a starch.
What is the storage of the starch?
glycogen
Where is glycogen (animal starch) stored?
In humans, glycogen is stored in the liver and muscles. It is sometimes called animal starch.
Would blood serum contain starch or glycogen?
starch
What foods have non starch polysaccharides in them?
phytate,starch,glycogen
What is the stored form of carbohydrate in animals?
Glycogen
What are the structural differences of glycogen and starch?
Glycogen is storage form of glucose in animals .Starch is the storage form of glucose in plants
What are the examples of oligosaccharides?
Glycogen, Cellulose, and Starch are all examples of Polysaccharides.
