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* Both are macromolecules (large molecules). * Both are polymers, having similar repeating units. * Starch is a polysaccharide, and specifically a polymer of glucose; proteins are polymers of amino acids. There are more than 20 different amino acids found in proteins.

* Starch consists of both branched and unbranched forms; the polypeptide chains of proteins are not branched (although there may be covalent and other bonds formed different points along chains). * Starch is essentially in the form of long fibrous molecules; proteins have complex secondary (coils, pleated sheets, loops, turns), tertiary (folding) and even quaternary (assembly of two or more chains in some proteins) structures that result in an enormous variety of three-dimensional shapes.

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