Cellulose is the main storage polysaccharide in plants while glycogen is an important storage polysaccharide in many animals.

Both starch and glycogen are composed of α-glucose subunits.

Starch is composed of amylose and amylopectin, which are unbranched and branched chains of α-glucose subunits, respectively.

Like amylopectin, glycogen is insoluble in water, but it has a longer average chain length and fewer branches.

Although some polysaccharides are used to store energy, others serve as structural material for cells.

The principal structural polysaccharide in plants is starch.

Cellulose is composed of a long, branched chain of β-glucose subunits

The starch-hydrolyzing enzymes produced by most organisms cannot break the bond between two α -glucose subunits because they only recognize β linkages.

Chitin is a structural polysaccharide found in the exoskeleton of arthropods and the cell wall of many fungi.

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