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Glycogen is a short-term energy storage molecule found in animals and humans. Starch is a carbohydrate storage molecule in plants, used for energy storage and as a food reserve. Cellulose is a structural component of plant cell walls, providing strength and rigidity to plant cells.
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What is the polymer of a carbohydrate?
The polymer of a carbohydrate is called a polysaccharide. Polysaccharides are long chains of monosaccharide units (simple sugars) linked together through glycosidic bonds. Examples of polysaccharides include starch, cellulose, and glycogen.
An example of a polysaccharide that is used for energy storage in humans is?
STARCH in plants. GLYCOGEN in animals.
What substances are made up of glucose units only?
Glycogen and starch are two substances made from repeating units of glucose.
What do glycogen cellulose and starch all have in common?
Starch and cellulose are two common carbohydrates. Both are macromolecules with molecular weights in the hundreds of thousands. Both are polymers (hence "polysaccharides"); that is, each is built from repeating units, monomers, much as a chain is built from its links. The monomers of both starch and cellulose are the same: units of the sugar glucose. Starch contains alpha-glucose as monomer, whereas cellulose contains beta-glucose.
What is the polymer of glucose molecules?
The polymer of glucose molecules is called glycogen in animals and humans, and starch in plants. These polymers serve as storage forms of glucose in the body and can be broken down when energy is needed.
What carbohydrates a polysaccharide?
starch cellulose glycogen
Which of the carbohraydrates is a polysaccharide?
Starch, glycogen, cellulose
What are three important polysaccharides?
Polysaccharides are long chains of monosaccharides linked by glycosidic bonds. Three important polysaccharides, starch, glycogen, and cellulose, are composed ofglucose. Starch and glycogen serve as short-term energy stores in plants and animals, respectively. They range in structure from linear to highly branched.
Example of polysaccharides?
Glycogen, starch, Cellulose and chitin
What are three polysaccharides?
Examples: starch, cellulose, glycogen.
How are glycogen starch and cellulose related?
They are all polysaccharides.
What are water insolubles?
Polysaccharides such as: starch, glycogen and cellulose
The monomer that makes up glutose starch and cellulose is the monasaccharide?
The monomer that makes up glycogen starch and cellulose is the monasaccharide?
Three types of polysaccharides?
Examples: starch, cellulose, glycogen.
Are starch glycogen cellulose and chintin examples of lipids?
No. All of these are carbohydrates and specifically polsaccharides. Starch and glycogen are storage polysaccharides. Cellulose and chitin are structural polysaccharides.
What is the polymer of a carbohydrate?
The polymer of a carbohydrate is called a polysaccharide. Polysaccharides are long chains of monosaccharide units (simple sugars) linked together through glycosidic bonds. Examples of polysaccharides include starch, cellulose, and glycogen.
What are two polysaccharides in the structure of a plant cell?
2 polysaccharides found in plants are starch and cellulose. :)
