Although cellulose and starch are identical in terms of stored chemical energy, our ability to harvest the energy from these two polysaccharides differs considerably. What is responsible for this difference?

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Hello everyone. And in today's video we have a very short problem. So let's jump straight into it. So cellos differs from starch because remember, these are two types of carbohydrates. So, I want you to recall from previous videos some of the similarities of these two carbohydrates and I'm going to lay them out here for you so that you can remember. And the main similarity of them too is that they're both policy acolytes of glucose. So they contain many glucose. More customers linked together in order to form either cellulose or starch. However, the main difference between cellulose and starch in terms of the human body is that as humans we cannot digest cellulose because we do not have the silver lace enzyme. However, we can digest starch. It is. It can be a part of our diet. So now that we know this, let's jump into the problem. First of all, we have option A. It cannot be used as a source of energy in the body in terms of cellos. Well, since we do not have satellites and we cannot break down, settle laws in order to obtain glucose and use it for energy, This is a true statement. So we are not going to cancel it out. This is a way that settle those differs from storage in terms of the human body. Moving on to answer choice B. It does not store chemical energy in terms of cellulose. Well, as we see here both of these compounds serve as the storage of glucose and glucose is chemical energy. This is what we use as chemical energy. So it is actually an incorrect statement because cellulose can store chemical energy in the form of glucose who are going to cancel it out. This cannot be our answer choice. When we know we have answer choice. C. Cellulose is indigestible for humans. We already saw here that we lack the enzyme so delay. So we cannot digest cellulose. So it's going to be a correct statement. However, we can digest starch so it is a way that they differentiate from each other. So since both answer choice A and C. Are correct or final answer is going to be answer choice D. Which is both A and C. But it's going to be the final answer to our problem. And I really hope this video helped.

Although cellulose and starch are identical in terms of stored chemical energy, our ability to harvest the energy from these two polysaccharides differs considerably. What is responsible for this difference?

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Polysaccharides

Digestibility and Enzymatic Breakdown

Energy Harvesting