The diffrence between amylose and amylopectin is
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Carbohydrates are the hydrated carbons. They are classified as monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides. One of the polysaccharides is starch, which contains amylose and amylopectin in it or in other words we can say that amylose and amylopectin are the part of starch. 70-80% of starch has amylopectin, and only 20-30% of starch has amylose in its structure. The main difference between amylose and amylopectin is of structure and solubility. Both have glucose molecule in it linked together, but amylose has a linear structure of glucose chain linked together from C1 of one glucose and C4 of other glucose, this is called α-1,4-glycosidic bonds. On the other hand, amylopectin has a branched structure; it also has α-1,4-glycosidic bonds, but it also contains a branched chain linked at some points via α-1,6-glycosidic bonds. Another difference between both of them is that amylose has the chain of 300-several thousands number of glucose units, on the other hand, amylopectin has 2000-200,000 units of glucose linked with branched after each 20-30 unit. The interesting thing is that amylose is insoluble in water while amylopectin is soluble in water.
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difference between amylose and amylopectin is that amylose is a straight chain polymer whereas amylopectin is a branched chain polymer.