BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

Detailed explanation-1: -Starch (a polymer of glucose) is used as a storage polysaccharide in plants, being found in the form of both amylose and the branched amylopectin. In animals, the structurally similar glucose polymer is the more densely branched glycogen, sometimes called “animal starch".

Detailed explanation-2: -Starch occurs in intracellular granules and does not have any function as structure-building molecule in plant cells, but rather functions as a storage polysaccharide. Starch is produced in plant leaves through photosynthesis in the chloroplasts. It is stored in these green plant parts as small granules.

Detailed explanation-3: -Starch serves as energy storage in plants. Glycogen is an even more highly branched polysaccharide of glucose monomers that serves a function of energy storage in animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Glucose is stored in the form of starch by plants in other parts like leaves, roots and stem. Q. Plants store glucose in the form of insoluble starch in leaves.