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starch molecules are actually long chains of glucose molecules. When you eat food containing starches, such as potatoes, your body breaks down the starch into the glucose molecules. Your cells then use glucose to obtain energy through cellular respiration.

Based on what you learned in the lab, why does your body need to break down starch into glucose?

Starch contains more energy than glucose.

Starch molecules are too large to diffuse into cells.

Glucose molecules are larger than starch molecules.​

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Starch molecules are too large to diffuse into cells.

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Starch molecules are too large to diffuse into cells.

Hence body breaks down starch molecules into glucose molecules to obtain energy through cellular respiration.

What are starch molecules?

Starch is a chain of glucose molecules which are linked together and forms polysaccharides.

There are two types polysaccharide in starch  molecules :

  • Amylose - linear form of glucose chain
  • Amylopectin - branched form of glucose chain

Starch molecules are too large that can not diffuse through the semipermeable membrane.

Hence, our body breaks down the starch into glucose molecules to use as energy.

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