Glycogen forms an energy reserve that can be quickly mobilized to meet a sudden need for glucose, but one that is less compact than the energy reserves of triglycerides (lipids). In the liver, glycogen can compose from 5 to 6% of its fresh weight (100–120 g in an adult).
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13.Describe the polysaccharides. Complex carbohydrates like starch, glycogen, cellulose, and chitin are long polymers of monosaccharides. Starch comes from plants and is a long-term storage form of sugar. Starch is also the major source of food for every human culture.
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They are both made up of chains of glucose molecules, with glycogen being the form for animals and starch being the form for plants. 6 people found this useful.
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A more familiar description … is that carbohydrates are long chains made up of sugar molecules. Another name for carbohydrate is polysaccharide (poly = many, saccharide = sugar). So, you might ask, why aren't starches sweet? Well, the chains are so long that the taste receptors on your tongue can not register them.
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Glycogen is the analogue of starch, a glucose polymer that functions as energy storage in plants.
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In organic chemistry, a monomer is a molecule by itself. Monomer means “a single part”. Some examples of organic monomers are a glucose molecule, a nucleotide, or an amino acid. Polymers are macromolecules built of two or more monomers.
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Glycogen is the way that sugar is stored in animals, starch is the way that sugar is stored in plants. 2 people found this useful. Edit. Share to: 1  The Five Major Parts of the Brain At its most basic, the brain controls the body.
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Glycogen functions as the secondary long-term energy storage, with the primary energy stores being fats held in adipose tissue. Muscle glycogen is converted into glucose by muscle cells, and liver glycogen converts to glucose for use throughout the body including the central nervous system.
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Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids 3. Explain the difference between a molecule and a macromolecule. A molecule is simply two or more atoms chemically bonded to one another. A macromolecule is two or more molecules chemically bonded to each other. Organic compounds include molecules and macromolecules.
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It has a similar structure to amylopectin (a component of starch), but is more extensively branched and compact than starch. Glycogen is found in the form of granules in the cytosol /cytoplasm in many cell types, and plays an important role in the glucose cycle.
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what term describes the class of molecules that includes starch and glycogen?
The class of molecules that include starch and glycogen are termed as complex carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates describe the class of molecules that includes starch and glycogen.