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Carbohydrates are commonly found as starch in plant storate organs. Which of the following five properties of starch (A-E) make it useful as a storage material?
A. Easily translocated
B. chemically non-reactive.
C. easily digested by animals
D. osmotically inactive
E. synthesised during photosynthesis
The useful properties are:-

A

1,3,5

B

1 and 5

C

2 and 3

D

2 and 4.

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D
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