Question

Glucose produced during photosynthesis is soon polymerised into starch. What does polymerisation mean?

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Answer 1

Polymerisation is a process through which a large number of monomer molecules react together to form a polymer.

Starch is a polymer of glucose, i.e. a starch molecule is formed by combining several glucose molecules; the process is termed polymerisation.

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