Question

Is floridean starch similar to cellulose?

Answer 1

Floridean starch:

1. The polysaccharide cellulose, an organic molecule is made up of a linear chain of several hundred to many thousands of D-glucose units that are covalently bonded.
2. Green plants, numerous types of algae, and oomycetes all have basic cell walls that contain cellulose as an essential structural element.
3. Floridean starch, like amylopectin and glycogen, is a storage glucan found in red algae or Rhodophyceae.
4. "Semi-amylopectin" is a term used to describe the polymers that make up Floridean starch.
5. Floridean starch is a form of storage glucan found in glaucophytes and red algae (also known as rhodophytes).
6. There is just one distinction.
7. The glucose repeat units in starch are all parallel to one another.
8. However, in comparison to the previous repeat unit, each succeeding glucose unit in cellulose rotates 180 degrees around the axis of the polymer backbone chain.