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How do animals and plants store excess sugar?
Plants capture energy from sunlight by means of photosynthesis. Using the green pigment in their leaves called chlorophyll, which makes sugar. They store the sugar primarily as starch. Storage in the form of fat / oil is common too, especially in seeds. Animals mostly store excess sugar in body fat, and plants usually make fruit with excess sugar (as long as they have enough water).
What do plants and animals store excess carbos as?
unused carbohydrates in an animal are stored as fat and as starch in a plant.
What is the difference in which in animals and plants store energy?
What is the difference in which in animals and plants store energy?
Is carbhydrates storage in both plants and animals?
Plants store carbohydrates as sugars and starches...cellulose is also a complex structural sugar. Animals store glycogen (a type of complexed sugar) in the liver and muscles for fast energy and convert excess carbohydrate to fat.
What energy does the body store from eating food?
The body uses glucose as energy. Excess glucose is stored as fat (in animals) and as starch (in plants).
What is the storage form of glucose?
Animals store excess glucose in their liver as a large compound called glycogen. Plants store extra glucose in their starch.
How do plants store excess sugar?
It saves it by stirring it in the leaf.
In what organ do animals store excess sugar?
Liver as glycogen
What is it called when Animals Store their excess energy in this form they and can use this form of energy storing form later on if they dont have enough energy?
Animals Store their excess energy in the form of fat's.
What is the name for a polysaccharide that plants use to store excess sugar?
starch
Why is the disposal of nitrogenous waste a problem for animals but not for plants?
The nitrates in nitrogenous waste reduce the oxygen carrying capabilities of the haemoglobin in the blood of animals. Since plants do not have haemoglobin they can absorb it to help them make proteins.
What do plants store as oils?
All plants store oil such as olive oil in their seeds. The excess energy that is available is used by plants to make glycerol and fatty acids.
