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What is the basic structural difference between starch and cellulose?
Cellulose is a straight chain polysaccharide composed only of β-D-glucose units which are joined by glycosidic linkage between C1 of one glucose unit and C4 of the next glucose unit. On other hand starch is a branched chain polymer of α-glucose and consists of two components Amylose(water soluble) and Amylopectin (water insoluble).
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