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Glycogen is storage form of glucose in animals .Starch is the storage form of glucose in plants

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Are starch glycogen cellulose and chintin examples of lipids?

No. All of these are carbohydrates and specifically polsaccharides. Starch and glycogen are storage polysaccharides. Cellulose and chitin are structural polysaccharides.


What type of polysaccharide is found in potatoes?

Starch is found potatoes, not Glycogen. Glycogen is the plant equivalent of animal glycogen. A potato has starch but no glycogen; muscle cells have glycogen but no starch. The starch we eat is broken into glucose in the stomach/small intest and then reassembled in the muscle cells as glycogen.


Is your body capable of converting starch into glycogen?

Glycogen. Starch is exclusive to plant storage of carbohydrates.


What is the another term for an animal starch?

Glycogen is the proper name for animal starch. It is stored int the livers and muscles of animals. It can also be found in certain kinds of fungi and bacteria.


What is glycogen and which group it belongs to?

Glycogen is animal starch and is a polysaccharide.


How you will define glycogen?

Glycogen is the body's storage of energy. It is a starch.


What is the storage of the starch?

glycogen


Where is glycogen (animal starch) stored?

In humans, glycogen is stored in the liver and muscles. It is sometimes called animal starch.


Would blood serum contain starch or glycogen?

starch


What foods have non starch polysaccharides in them?

phytate,starch,glycogen


What is the stored form of carbohydrate in animals?

Glycogen


What are the examples of oligosaccharides?

Glycogen, Cellulose, and Starch are all examples of Polysaccharides.