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What is the name given to areas in plant cells that store starch and pigment molecules?
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The areas in plants that store starch and pigment molecules are organelles. The main organelles are plastids.
Chloroplasts are photosynthesizing plastids.
Chromoplasts are plastids that store pigments, though some pigments, such as pink, purple and anthocyanins are usually stored in the vacuole of cells.
Amyoplasts are plastids that store starches.
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What organic molecules do potato cells have?
The large molecule found in potatoes is starch.
Where is melanin located in the skin?
Melanocytes are pigment cells that synthesize melanin. These cells inject the melanin pigment in the living keratinocytes cells (skin cells) of the stratum basale layer of the epidermis. Note: The Melanocyte cells also reside in the stratum basale.
Why don't starch molecules pass through partially permeable membranes?
Albumin and starch molecules are too big to diffuse across cell membranes. They will not be able to diffuse from the intestine into the blood and from blood into the cells.
What is the structure of amyloplast?
An analogy is a warehouse because they both store things.
What is the function of the starch granule?
In plants starch is food storage. In herbivores starch is food. In cooking starch is a thickener.
What organelle is starch and water molecules in potato cells stored in?
vacuole
Most of the starch stored in the cells of a potato is composed of molecules that originally entered these cells as what?
simple sugars
What organic molecules do potato cells have?
The large molecule found in potatoes is starch.
What do cells use sugar and starch for?
The function of starch in plant cells is primarily the storage, and then the releasing, of biochemical energy.
Where is melanin located in the skin?
Melanocytes are pigment cells that synthesize melanin. These cells inject the melanin pigment in the living keratinocytes cells (skin cells) of the stratum basale layer of the epidermis. Note: The Melanocyte cells also reside in the stratum basale.
Why can protein and starch not be absorbed directly into the body?
Because starch is a polymer of sugar molecules (lots of them all bound together as a store of sugar) and the cells in the body can only metabolize individual sugar molecules. Therefore the starch needs to be broken up into its individual sugars before it is any use to the cells.
What is Amylosplast?
The main function of amyloplast is to store starch granules in some plant cells. They are also responsible for synthesizing these starch granules.
Does amylase work inside or outside the cells?
They are produced within cells but then are free to pass out of the cell and into the gut where it does its job of turning starch into sugar molecules.
Why don't starch molecules pass through partially permeable membranes?
Albumin and starch molecules are too big to diffuse across cell membranes. They will not be able to diffuse from the intestine into the blood and from blood into the cells.
What moves during diffusion?
Particles, cells, and molecules move from areas of higher to lower concentrated areas.
What is the structure of amyloplast?
An analogy is a warehouse because they both store things.
How does concentration of amylase affect starch digestion?
Starch is a complex carbohydrate or polysaccharide, which consists of many monosaccharide molecules (glucose) joined together.Since the cell in the body has partially permeable membrane, it cannot absorb big size molecules, such as starch and protein.Hence, starch needs to be broken down to glucose before it can be absorbed into the cells of the body.
