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Which one is polymer?

Options

  1. ASucrose
  2. BGlycogen
  3. CFructose
  4. DLactose

Correct answer

B. Glycogen

Step-by-step solution

Glycogen is the main storage polysaccharide in animals. Hence, it is commonly called 'animal starch'. Blue-green algae and fungi also store glycogen as 'fuel reserve'. Like those of amylopectin, glycogen molecules are also large and highly branched (branch points are α 1-6 linkages) polymers of thousands of D-glucose residues linked by α 1-4 glycosidic bonds. In comparison to amylopectin molecules, however, glycogen molecules are much larger, more extensively branched, and more compactly coiled concentrically.

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