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What is starch in biology?

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All plant seeds and tubers contain starch which is predominantly present as amylose and amylopectin. Plants use starch as a way to store excess glucose, and thus also use starch as food during mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. read more

Starch has many commercial uses, such as in papermaking, as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, in printing industry, in hydrogen production, etc. read more

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. read more

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