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1. Know the three types of polysaccharides.

i. Starch
1. Not animal cells
2. Plant cells
3. Glucose monomers
4. Inside a plant cell, such as a cell in a rice plant,
starch chains branch and coil up like the loops
of a telephone cord.
a. Serve as sugar stockpiles
b. Plant cells, like animal cells, need sugar
for energy to perform work, and as raw
materials for build other molecules.
c. When plants break down starch
molecules, the stored glucose becomes
available.
i. Humans and most other animals
are also able to use plant starch as
food by breaking it down within
their digestive systems.
1. Potatoes
2. Rice
3. Corn

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