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Essential and Non-Essential Amino Acids

Amino sugar a...

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Amino sugar and chemically modified sugar is commonly present in:

A

Cellulose

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Starch

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C

Chitin

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Glycogen

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Solution

The correct option is C Chitin
Chitin is a homopolymer of an amino derivative of glucose units, called N-acetyl glucose amine. Amino sugars are the building blocks of chitin. So, the correct answer is ‘chitin’.

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