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Is vacuole a polysaccharide?
No, a vacuole is not a polysaccharide. Vacuoles are membrane-bound organelles found in the cells of plants, fungi, and some protists that store water, nutrients, and waste products. Polysaccharides, on the other hand, are complex carbohydrates made up of multiple sugar units bonded together.
Why excess sugar is often stored as starch and not as a simple sugar?
Excess sugar is often stored as starch because starch is a more compact and efficient way to store energy. While simple sugars, like glucose, are readily usable for immediate energy, they can lead to osmotic imbalances in cells if stored in large amounts. Starch, a polysaccharide, allows organisms to store glucose units in a less reactive and more stable form, which can be broken down into glucose when needed, minimizing potential cellular damage. This storage strategy is especially important for plants and some fungi, which rely on starch as a primary energy reserve.
Where is excess sugar stored in plants?
In their fruits and in some cases in their flowers also.
Is mannose a polysaccharide?
No, it is a reducing sugar.
What plants store food in stem?
sugarcane
What polysaccharide form do plants store sugar to be available later for energy?
Starch
How do animals and plants store excess sugar?
Plants capture energy from sunlight by means of photosynthesis. Using the green pigment in their leaves called chlorophyll, which makes sugar. They store the sugar primarily as starch. Storage in the form of fat / oil is common too, especially in seeds. Animals mostly store excess sugar in body fat, and plants usually make fruit with excess sugar (as long as they have enough water).
Animal cells store excess sugar in the form of a polysaccharide called starch?
Actually, animal cells store excess sugar in the form of glycogen, not starch. Glycogen is a polysaccharide that serves as a short-term energy storage molecule in animals, while starch is commonly found in plants for energy storage.
How do plants store excess sugar?
It saves it by stirring it in the leaf.
Whahow do plants and animals store excess sugar?
starch
Where do we store our excess sugar?
Excess sugar is converted to fat and stored in fat cells.
When plants store sugar they store it as a molecule made up of long chain of sugars called?
they are cellulose molecule.starches
Why can a more complex sugar polysaccharide store more store than a monosaccharide?
Polysaccharides have more chemical bonds.
What is stored sugar in plants called?
Stored sugar in plants is called starch. It is a polysaccharide that serves as a long-term energy storage molecule in plants.
Is carbhydrates storage in both plants and animals?
Plants store carbohydrates as sugars and starches...cellulose is also a complex structural sugar. Animals store glycogen (a type of complexed sugar) in the liver and muscles for fast energy and convert excess carbohydrate to fat.
Plants store extra glucose in the form of?
Plants store glucose in the form of starch. Glucose is also converted to a range of other substances. Two notable examples are the conversion of glucose to fats/oils for seeds and the conversion of glucose to sucrose for transportation.
When plants store sugar what do they store it as?
protiens >:{)
