Divided into 3 stages:
1. Monosaccharides
2. Disaccharides
They are also sugars but they are consist of 2 sugar molecules that has undergone condensation process and formed glycosidic bond between them. The process itself is removing the -OH in one of the molecule, and hydrogen in -OH of the other grup, forming water and thus the glycosidic bonding.
3. Polysaccharides
| Amylose a-1,4 linkage only |
| Amylopectin a-1,4 and a-1,6 linkages |
It's "a convenient, compact, inert and insoluble molecule" as organism's energy storage. Poly means many. It's a combinations of a thousands of monosaccharides, forming a macro-molecules with glycosidic bond.
Starch -> storage polysaccharides formed in plants
Consist of both amylose and amylopectin
Glycogen -> storage polysaccharides formed in animals
Consist of only amylopectin and the structure is said to be more branched to form muscles like in heart and also liver muscles.
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