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Plants make carbohydrates beginning with glucose. This is then chained together to make all the other types of carbohydrates: various simple sugars, complex starches, or fibrous cellulose & pectin. Sugar and starch are food reserves but cellulose and pectin are structural elements of the cell wall in a plant.

The wall is made rigid by long fibrils of cellulose, a polymer of glucose, embedded in other polymers like pectin & lignin. Starch comes in two kinds but both are also glucose polymers.

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