what is starch ?
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Starch is long chains of sugar molecules linked together like a chain. A single sugar molecule is a monosaccharide. Many sugar molecules linked together is a polysaccharide. Starch, therefore, is a polysaccharide. Specifically, starch is composed of the sugar glucose.
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starch is a polysaccharide which is usually found in the storage forms in the green plants.
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- The starch is a polysaccharide which consists of multiple molecules of glucose which are linked by glycosidic linkage. however glucose is a monosaccharide and it contains only carbon hydrogen and oxygen.
- the molecular weight of starch is multiple times of that of glucose.
- In addition to this starch is broken down by enzymes amylase in the digestive system of human being, starch can be tested by using iodine when the blue black colour disappears
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