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11 years ago
I know starch is polysaccharide but what about carbohydrates?,how is it different from starch molecular structure wise?
what's the difference between them?
because in my book it says "Plants store Carbohydrates as starch.It is quick and easy to change glucose into starch and starch to glucose"
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11 years ago
Starches are a type of carbohydrate.  So are sugars.
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11 years ago
Carbohydrates are a class of biological compounds that have C, H, and O in their structure, and have a ratio of 2 hydrogens for each oxygen.  Then, within the class of carbohydrates we have sugars, and starches ( and cellulose).  So, in your question, starch IS a carbohydrate, but it has hundreds, if not thousands of sugar molecules (glucose) joined together.  The other carbohydrates generally have only a few sugars joined.  So, it would be quite easy to convert starch to glucose, because each molecule of starch has lots, and lots of molecules of glucose.
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