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How are glycogen and starch similar

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Structure. Both starches and glycogen are polymers formed from sugar molecules called glucose. ... Of these two, glycogen is more similar to amylopectin, since the sugar chains in glycogen and amylopectin are highly branched, while amylose is strictly linear.

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