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.
to 10 sugar molecules. polysaccharides Long carbohydrate chains composed of more than 10 sugar molecules. Polysaccharides can be straight or branched. starch The major storage form of carbohydrate in plants; starch is composed of long chains of glucose molecules in a straight (amylose) or branching (amylopectin) arrangement.