Question

Similarities between glycogen and starch

Answer 1

Both starch and glycogen serve as energy storage.

Both starches and glycogen are polymers formed from sugar molecules called glucose.

Starch and glycogen are both formed from alpha glucose, an isomer in which a hydroxy or -OH group on the first of the six carbons is on the opposite side of the ring from carbon 6.


starch and glycogen, cellulose is a glucose polymer, but unlike starch and glycogen, it contains only beta glucose molecules.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Glycogen and starch are composed of α-glucose subunits.
• Energy is stored in both glycogen and starch. In order to provide a supply for later use, the plant converts glucose into starch.
• The additional starch found in seeds, roots, and tubers is typically used to nourish the young plant or seedling that will emerge from them.
• Similar to how your liver stores some of the glucose from your meal as glycogen for later use, when your food is digested.
• Additionally, the muscular fibers in your body store some glycogen.
• Glycogen and starches are both polymers created from glucose sugar molecules.
• Each independent glucose molecule has the chemical formula C6H12O, and by stringing these glucose subunits together in specific ways, glycogen and starch are created.
• There are two different kinds of starch: amylopectin and amylose.
• Since the sugar chains in glycogen and amylopectin are extensively branched, but amylose is strictly linear, glycogen is more comparable to amylopectin than amylose.

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