Even women with less severe forms of PKU may place their unborn children at risk by not following the PKU diet. Babies born to mothers with high phenylalanine levels don't often inherit PKU. But they can have serious consequences if the level of phenylalanine is high in the mother's blood during pregnancy.
Four polysaccharides are starch, glycogen, cellulose and chitin. The function of starch and glycogen are to store energy with cells within a body. Cellulose and chitin are designed to protect cells. Continue Reading.
Sometimes known as glycans, there are three common and principal types of polysaccharide, cellulose, starch and glycogen, all made by joining together molecules of glucose in different ways. Polysaccharides are very large, high molecular weight biological molecules that are almost pure carbohydrate.