Carbon seems to be an essential component of sugar and sugars combine to form starch. How does that happen?
2006-12-22 05:21:13 · 4 answers · asked by buggiebuddy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Starch is polysaccharides that found in plants, why Glycogen is polysaccharides that found in animals. They're both storage of energy.
Starch forms by a process called condensation reaction (because it lose water to link monosacharides together, in this case link many glucose molecules together = starch). A chain of monosacharides linked together by "covalent bond". This bond between a monosacharide to another is called "glycosidic linkage".
Simplest form of starch is called Amylose, which compose of long, unbranched chains of glucose molecules. If there is branch, we call it "amylopectin".
However glycogen in animals have more branches than amylopectin (starch) in plants.
Simple glucose formula = C6H12O6. So carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are essential components of sugar (glucose).
2006-12-22 06:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Zoo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One sugar molecule (a monosaccharide) combines with another to for a disaccharide, which combines with another to continue the polysaccharide chain. The reaction is best described here:
http://library.thinkquest.org/11226/main/c01txt.htm
2006-12-22 05:37:41 · answer #2 · answered by sep_n 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sugar 1 : Let's have sex!
Sugar 2 : Ok!
-Have sex-
Yay! combined into starch.
2006-12-22 05:23:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I do believe that many hydrogen bonds form that stick the sugars together in a strand.
2006-12-22 05:25:42 · answer #4 · answered by katie 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋