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Glucose is the basic unit of glycogen. In humans, glycogen is stored in the liver as well as the muscle tissues.

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What substance would the repeating unit that makes up glycogen?

The repeating unit in glycogen is glucose. Glucose molecules are polymerized and linked together in chains to form glycogen, which is the storage form of glucose in animals.


What is the basic unit of a starch molecule?

Starch is a polymer of Glucose.


What carbohydrate is stored in the liver?

Glycogen is the primary carbohydrate stored in the liver. It serves as a reserve of energy that can be broken down into glucose when needed by the body.


Is glycogen made with glucose units?

Yes! Glycogen is made from repeating units of glucose. Hope this helps!


What molecule supplies the energy needed to join glucose molecules together to form a molecule of glycogen?

Generally speaking, no molecule supplies the energy to join a glucose into a growing glycogen chain. A previous step must be done and that is the formation of uridine diphosphate glucose (UDP-glucose or UDPG). Since the direct conversion of Glucose 1 phosphate (G1P) to glycogen and Pi is thermodynamically unfavorable (positive delta G) under all physiological Piconcentrations, glycogen biosynthesis requires the formation of UDPG by the combination of G1P with uridine triphosphate (UTP). UDPG's "high energy" status permits it to spontaneously donate glucosyl units to the growing glycogen chain. The step is catalyzed by the enzyme Glycogen Synthase, the glycosyl unit of UDPG is transferred to the C4-OH group on one of the glycogen's nonreducing ends to form an alpha(1-4)-glycosidic bond.

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What is basic unit of glycogen?

glucose


What substance would the repeating unit that makes up glycogen?

The repeating unit in glycogen is glucose. Glucose molecules are polymerized and linked together in chains to form glycogen, which is the storage form of glucose in animals.


What is the carbohydrate that is found in abundance in mammalian blood?

Glucose


What is the basic unit of cellulose?

basic unit of cellulose is glucose


Glucose is the unit that almost exclusively makes up starch and glycogen?

yes


What is the storage form of glucose?

Animals store excess glucose in their liver as a large compound called glycogen. Plants store extra glucose in their starch.


Does oxidation of glucose yield more energy than glycogen?

No. The oxidation of glycogen yields more energy than glucose. You need to put energy in formation of the glycogen from glucose. Naturally, this energy is released, when you get get glucose from glycogen.


Does insulin mobilize liver glycogen to yield glucose?

No, insulin stimulates the liver to produce glycogen from glucose. Glucagon mobilizes liver glycogen to yield glucose.


What is the basic unit of starch?

The basic unit of starch is a glucose molecule, which is linked together in long chains to form complex carbohydrates. Multiple glucose molecules combine to form amylose and amylopectin, the two main components of starch.


What is the basic unit of a starch molecule?

Starch is a polymer of Glucose.


Example of glycogen?

Glycogen is a polysaccharide of glucose that is energy storage in animals and fungi. Glucose is an example of glycogen.


What you expect to get if you hydrolyze a glycogen molecule?

glucose molecules because glycogen is stored glucose formed from glucose linkages