Answer: Sugar molecules that combine with one another to form large molecules
How is a starch formed?

While amylose was thought to be completely unbranched it is now known that some of its molecules contain a few branch points. Amylose is a much smaller molecule than amylopectin. About one quarter of the mass of starch granules in plants consist of amylose although there are about 150 times more amylose than amylopectin molecules. Starch molecules arrange themselves in the plant in semi-crystalline granules. Each plant species has …

Corn starch maize starch or corn flour (British English) is the starch derived from corn (maize) grain. The starch is obtained from the endosperm of the kernel. Corn starch is a common food ingredient often used to thicken sauces or soups and to make corn syrup and other sugars. Corn starch is versatile easily modified and finds many uses in industry such as adhesives in paper products as an anti-sticking agent and textile manufacturing. It has medical uses as well such as to supply glucose for people with glycoge…

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Starch is made of about 80–85% amylopectin by weight though it varies depending on the source (higher in medium-grain rice to 100% in glutinous rice waxy potato starch and waxy corn and low...

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