Multiple choice

Which of the following is the most abundant organic compound?

  1. Glycogen

  2. Dextrans

  3. Inulin

  4. Cellulose

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Explanation

This is the most abundant organic compound, most abundant biopolymer, and most abundant poly-saccharide found on earth. Like those of amylose, molecules of cellulose are unbranched homopolymers of about ten to fifteen thousand D-glucose monomers which are, however, linked not by a, 1-4 but by P, 1-4 glycosidic bonds.

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