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What is the difference between amylose and amylopectin?

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 it… (MORE)

Tehee12

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In Health

What is the function of amylose?

Amylose helps keep the structure of plants amylose is good for storage in plants.

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In Plastics and Polymers

Is amylose a polymer?

Yes, amylose is a (bio)polymer. It is a linear polysaccharide with alpha-D-glucose as the repeating unit.

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How could you determine the degree of polymerization of amylose?

Well,, that's a good one!!! We can measure it spectrophotometrically by measuring the amount of inorganic phosphate released during the reaction. Also we can use Light sca… (MORE)

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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 branche… (MORE)

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In Rice

What is the Amylose content of rice?

starch is made up of two components - * amylose *amylopectine that corresponds with quality of rice...

neha pursan

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What are similarities between cellulose and amylose?

They both made up of glucose. However, the differences are amylose is digestable, whereas cellulose is not. they are both unbranches structure....

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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 struc… (MORE)

Joppe DeQuint

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What holds monomers together to from amylose?

The alpha(1-4) glucosidic bond between two glucose monomeres to form linear chain of poly-glucose. [The alpha(1-6) bond between two glucose monomeres to form a branching poi… (MORE)

Joppe DeQuint

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What is the monosaccharide that results from the complete hydrolysis of amylose?

Amylose is made up of α(1→4) bonded glucose monomers, so glucose is the only product of complete hydrolytic breakdown.