Explain the difference between an oligosaccharide and a polysaccharide.

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Welcome back, everyone. Which of the following statements about Oligo sack rights and polysac rights is incorrect. We're given four answer choices. Let's begin with the first one. It states Oligo sac rights consist of more than some monosaccharide units. While Polys rights consist of 3 to 10 monos right units. And basically, we can say that this is the incorrect statement. It's actually opposite. Now, Oligo Sack writes, they consist of 3 to 10 monos R units while Polysac writes, they would have more than sun monos R units. So A is the correct answer choice. Now, let's look at B polysaccharides are smaller and less complex than polysaccharides due to there are fewer mono sac R units. And this statement is actually correct, right. And the reason why it's correct is simply because Oligo sac rights are smaller and less complex than polysac Rs and polysac rights. Well, they can have a very complex structures due to their large size in branching. Right. Now, let's consider statement C Eggos rights play a role in cell recognition while Poly rights serve as energy storage. Now, this statement is correct, polysac rights are often involved in cell recognition and signaling whereas polysac Rs like Starch and Glycogen are primarily used for energy storage, right? So we can exclude options B and C. So far in the polysac Rs are shorter sugar chains. While polysac rights are longer sugar chains, the statement is actually correct. We already know that based from our analysis for option A right. So the only correct answer to this problem would be a this is the statement that incorrectly describes Oligo sack rights and Fly sack writes. Thank you for watching.