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Why Do Plants Store Glucose As Starch?

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Because starch is insoluble, it does not dissolve in water. This means it can be stored, rather than just be floating around in the plant clogging up the water that the plant is trying to transport to the rest of the plant.
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So the plant has a store of energy when it can't gather enough glucose to support itself. Starch is insoluble so it can be stored within the plant easily and it can be converted back
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Because glucose is used for growth.
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Starch is actually made up of many glucose molecules linked together to form long chains. Also the three-dimensional shape that starch takes is much more compact then just storing
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Since glucose is soluble in water it is harder to store because it increases the concentration of the cells upsetting the osmotic pressure of the cytoplasm. but starch is an insoluble
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