Difference Between Alpha Glucose And Beta Glucose

By admin, March 1, 2009 3:25 am

In organic chemistry, the principle difference between amylose (from starch) and cellulose is:?

A) amylose has exclusively alpha(1,4)-linked glucose and cellulose has exclusively beta(1,4)-linked glucose

B) amylose has exclusively alpha(1,6)-linked glucose and cellulose has beta(1,4)-linked glucose

C) amylose has alpha(1,4)-linked glucose with alpha(1,6)-branches and cellulose has exclusively beta(1,4)-linked glucose.

D) amylose has exclusively alpha(1,4)-linked glucose and cellulose has beta(1,4)-linked glucose with alpha(1,6) branches

The answer is definitely one of those four. It took me all of 5 seconds to find it on Wikipedia ;-)

Lec 2 | MIT 7.014 Introductory Biology, Spring 2005



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