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11 years ago
- a large polysaccharide used as energy storage in human muscles and livers?
a polysaccharide form of energy storage in plants?
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11 years ago
cellulose in plants. lignin ..
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11 years ago
Plants make cellulose, which is very close to starch, but polymerized in a slightly different way so that our enzymes that digest starch won't recognize it.

-Muscles and liver make glycogen, which is a polymer of glucose.
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11 years ago
Well, from my ancient nutrition class, cellulose and mannose are polysaccharide forms of energy storage in plants that humans are unable to digest.  A large polysaccharide used as energy storage in human muscles and livers is glycogen.  Polysaccharide forms of energy storage in plants include amylose, amylopectin, and glycogen.
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definition of a polysaccharide is a polymer of sugar molecules, so this occurs both in plants and animals.  Cellulose is a polysaccharide but not for energy storage.  Rafinnose is the polysaccharide that is energy storage in plants and humans cannot digest.  But bacteria can digest them and this is why you have gas when you eat beans.
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