8Starch a polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose monosaccharide units joined together by glycosidic bonds.

All plant seeds and tubers contain starch which is predominantly present as amylose and amylopectin. Depending on the plant, starch generally contains 20 to 25 percent amylose and 75 to 80 percent amylopectin. Starch is produced as granules in most plants cells. Native starches from different botanical sources vary widely in structure and composition, but all granules consist of two major molecular components, amylose (20-30%) and amylopectin (70-80%), both of which are polymers of -D-glucose units in the 4C1 conformation. In amylose (Figure 1), these are linked -(1 4)-, with the ring oxygen atoms all on the same side, whereas in amylopectin about one residue in every twenty is also linked -(1 6)- forming branch-points. Function - Starch is the main source of energy form in plants. Cellulose Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula (C6H10O5)n, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand (14) linked D-glucose units. function - Cellulose is the structural component of the primary cell wall of green plants, many forms of algae and the oomycetes. Some species of bacteria secrete it to form biofilms. Cellulose is the most common organic compound on Earth. About 33 percent of all plant matter is cellulose (the cellulose content of cotton is 90 percent and that of wood is 50 percent).

Glycogen Glycogen is a highly branched polymer. Most of Glc units are linked by -1,4 glycosidic bonds, approximately 1 in 12 Glc residues also makes alpha-1,6 glycosidic bond with a second Glc, which results in the creation of a branch. Glycogen does not possess a reducing end: the 'reducing end' glucose residue is not free but is covalently bound to a protein termed glycogenin as a beta-linkage to a surface tyrosine residue. function - Glycogen is a short term storage energy molecule in animals. It is a polysaccharie made out of glucose. Glucose is are our primary source to produce ATP. And ATP is our primary source for energy. Muscle cell glycogen appears to function as an immediate reserve source of available glucose for muscle cells. Other cells that contain small amounts use it locally as well. Muscle cells lack glucose-6phosphatase enzyme, so they lack the ability to pass glucose into the blood, so the glycogen they store internally is destined for internal use and is not shared with other cells, unlike liver cells.