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What is the difference in the structures of starch and cellulose ?

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`alpha `- glucose molecules are the monomers of starch and `beta `- glucose molecules are the monomers of cellulose. Starch and cellulose differ to each other in the orientation of -OH group at carbon number 1. The structures of `alpha`-glucose and `beta`-glucose are given as below ,

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