LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

BIOCHEMISTRY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
True of False. Glycogen is a starch that is found in animals.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Animal body stores carbohydrate as glycogen. It is also called animal starch because its structure is similar to amylopectin .

Detailed explanation-2: -Glycogen is an extensively branched glucose polymer that animals use as an energy reserve. It is the animal analog to starch. Glycogen does not exist in plant tissue. It is highly concentrated in the liver, although skeletal muscles contain the most glycogen by weight.

Detailed explanation-3: -Animal starch is known as glycogen, it is a form of starch and found in liver and muscle tissue.

Detailed explanation-4: -This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team. Glycogen is a multibranched polysaccharide of glucose that serves as a form of energy storage in animals, fungi, and bacteria. It is the main storage form of glucose in the human body.

Detailed explanation-5: -Food is stored in the form of glycogen in animals whereas, in the form of starch in plants.

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