Where's the starch prepared in the plant?
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Starch is synthesized in the plastids—chloroplasts in leaves or specialized amyloplasts in the starch-storing tissues of staple crops.
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Where's the starch prepared in the plant?
To discuss carbohydrate digestion, let's start with the example of corn starch being broken down into glucose. You can see this process by looking at the diagram to the right (click the image to enlarge).
Inside the corn kernel is starch. Starch is represented by the blue hexagonal shapes linked together. Remember, starch is essentially glucose (sugar) linked together.
This process starts in the mouth with salivary amylase.
THE PLANT PREPARED HIS FOOD FROM SUNLIGHT AND CARBON DIOXIDE
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