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They are both made up of chains of glucose molecules, with glycogen being the form for animals and starch being the form for plants.

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What is one common feature in glycogen and starch?

One common feature in glycogen and starch is that they are both polysaccharides made up of glucose units linked together. They serve as storage forms of energy in animals and plants, respectively.


Starch and what are common polysaccharide carbohydrates found in plants.?

glycogen


Is your body capable of converting starch into glycogen?

Glycogen. Starch is exclusive to plant storage of carbohydrates.


What is the another term for an animal starch?

Glycogen is the proper name for animal starch. It is stored int the livers and muscles of animals. It can also be found in certain kinds of fungi and bacteria.


What type of polysaccharide is found in potatoes?

Starch is found potatoes, not Glycogen. Glycogen is the plant equivalent of animal glycogen. A potato has starch but no glycogen; muscle cells have glycogen but no starch. The starch we eat is broken into glucose in the stomach/small intest and then reassembled in the muscle cells as glycogen.


How you will define glycogen?

Glycogen is the body's storage of energy. It is a starch.


How do humans and plants store polysaccharides?

The most common polysaccharide stored in animal body is glycogen . It is mostly stored in the liver and is converted into glucose when the body requires it .


What is the storage of the starch?

glycogen


Where is glycogen (animal starch) stored?

In humans, glycogen is stored in the liver and muscles. It is sometimes called animal starch.


Starch and are common carbohydrate polysaccharides found in plants?

glycogen


What foods have non starch polysaccharides in them?

phytate,starch,glycogen


Would blood serum contain starch or glycogen?

starch