Starch and Glycogen

Assay methods are available for most of the carbohydrates ranging from glycogen, starch, and cellulose to the monosaccharides and their monophosphates. Concentration determination of complex carbohydrates usually depends on their enzymatic hydrolysis to monosaccharides and determination of monosaccharide concentration via an enzymatic reaction. For example, starch is hydrolyzed to glucose by glucoamylase, and the... 

Three important polysaccharides made of glucose monomers are glycogen, starch, and cellulose. The liver and muscles of animals remove glucose from the hlood and condense it into glycogen, which can later he hydrolyzed hack into glucose and used to supply energy as needed. 

Carbohydrates are generally considered to be the main ultimate products of carbon dioxide transformation in the plant by the photosynthetic process. The monosaccharides, which are produced in a series of stepwise reactions, appear to serve two major functions they are partially consumed in respiration with the production of energy, which is utilized for the numerous metabolic reactions of the plant they also serve as building units in being combined by various enzymes, or enzymatic systems, to form complex saccharides, such as sucrose, maltose, lactose, glycogen, starch, and cellulose. 

Carbohydrates.—About 60 to 80 per cent, of the solids of the human diet are carbohydrates, represented by four sugars (glucose, fructose, lactose, and sucrose) and three polysaccharides, glycogen, starch, and cellulose. 

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