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Animals use but don't make starch.

In plants it is believed that starch is produced solely in the chloroplast.

However, research by biologist Nora Alonso Casajús' PhD shows that the precursor molecule in starch biosynthesis - known as ADPG - accumulates in the cytosol of the plants.

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