Polysaccharides

Amylose:

Starch is a mixture of amylose and amylopectin. They are found in chloroplasts and storage organs such as potatoes.Starch is the major glucose energy store in plants. It can rapidly be converted back to glucose for respiration.

It has two components:

• Amylose
• Amylopectin

Both are formed by a condensation reaction of alpha-glucose units, however the units are arranged differently. It is compact and insoluble which makes it ideal for a storage molecule…