Allan Hancock College is a public community college in Santa Maria, California, located in northern Santa Barbara County. Allan Hancock College has been ranked among the top 120 community colleges in the country and in the top five community colleges in the state of California. Allan Hancock offers undergraduate majors in 48 fields of study. Many of these fields are divided into different departments offering specific degrees or certificates.
It is also referred to as a polysaccharide, because it is a polymer of the monosaccharide glucose. Starch molecules include two types of glucose polymers, amylose and amylopectin, the latter being the major starch component in most plants, making up about three-fourths of the total starch in wheat flour. Amylose is a straight chain polymer with an average of about 200 glucose units per molecule.
Starch (a polymer of glucose) is used as a storage polysaccharide in plants, being found in the form of both amylose and the branched amylopectin.In animals, the structurally similar glucose polymer is the more densely branched glycogen, sometimes called 'animal starch'.olysaccharides contain more than ten monosaccharide units. Definitions of how large a carbohydrate must be to fall into the categories polysaccharides or oligosaccharides vary according to personal opinion. Polysaccharides are an important class of biological polymers.