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Amylopectin is easer for enzymes to get around and break it down.
Amylose is a long unbranced chain of glucose, it has a cylinder like structure wich makes it compact so its good for storage.
Amylopectin is a long branched chain of glucose, its structure is a benifit because enzymes that break glycosidic bonds to break down the moleclue get to it faster. This means glucose is released faster.
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In a disaccharide two monosaccharides are joined by what kind of bond?
Junctions between saccharide molecules are called glycoside bonds. This not only includes mono saccharides to form disaccharides but also many to form polysaccharides like amylopectin and amylose found in the starch of plants and glycogen in animals.
What is an amylose?
An amylose is the soluble form of starch which is a linear polymer of glucose.
Why glycogen gives red colour with iodine?
When Iodine is added to amylose, the helical shape of the unbranched polysaccharide traps Iodine molecules, producing a deep blue-black complex. Amylopectin, cellulose, and Glycogen react with iodine to give red to brown colors. Glycogen produces a reddish-purple color.
Color given by amylopectin on reaction with iodine?
less intensively purple to red
What is the difference between eluviation and leaching?
what is the difference between elevation and leaching
Are starches with a relatively large amount of amylose digested more quickly than those with amylopectin?
Enzymes are often substrate-specific, meaning they will only catalyze a reaction with a certain molecule. The difference in structure between amylose and amylopectin causes amylase to catalyze one and not the other.
Why is amylopectin more compact than amylose?
Actually, amylose is more compact than amylopectin due to its helical structure. Amylose is unbranching and forms a compact helix, whereas amylopectin is a branching structure.
What fruit does have amylose and amylopectin?
potato
Is amylose branched?
No. only Amylopectin is
Can a dilute iodine solution be used to distinguish between amylose and amylopectin?
Hell nah
What does amylopectins do to starch?
Starch is a mixture of two types of polymers (or macromolecules) namely: Amylose and Amylopectin. Both polymers have a fairly large distribution of sizes, but are still made of glucose units. The main distinguishing factor between amylose and amylopectin is the amount of branching. Amylopectin is more branched than amylose (long chain polymer). So amylopectin is actually refering to starch molecules which are branched.
The structural difference between amylose and amylopectin?
Amylose is type of starch which is unbranched. Consisting 1-4 Alfa glycosidic linkage. It is not easy to digested and takes less space than amylopectin. Amylopectin is branched and consisting 1 alfa 1-6 linkage per 30 alfa 1-6 linkage. It is similar to glycogen expecting lower level of branching.
Flour amylose and amylopectin is a polymer of which subunit?
Amylase
What is the function of amylopectin?
It is used in the storage of starch along with amylose
What produces maltose during digestion?
Amylose and Amylopectin.
What is a name of a polysaccharides that produces maltose during digestion?
Amylose, Amylopectin
What are the proper names of the two types of molecules found in starch?
amylose and amylopectin
