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A food scientist has chemically analyzed a food item to determine its ingredients. One of the ingredients was a complex chemical that consisted of several hundred glucose molecules bonded together. When the scientist tested the complex chemical, he discovered it couldn't be digested by humans. Based on this information, the complex chemical was a form of _____.

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Based on this information the answer is that this chemical is amylose which consists of linear and unbranched chains of several hundred glucose.

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