The stored food in the leaves is is_________
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The stored food in the leaves is in the form of starch.
- Cellulose is a polymeric polysaccharide consisting of many units of glucose.
- Starch is a variant of this but is present as a storehouse of energy in plant tissues.
- Starch forms a helical structure.
- Starch can hold iodine molecules in its helices. The starch-I₂ is blue in color. It is because of this that when we test for starch it gives violet-blue color.
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