Homopolysaccharide
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Homopolysaccharides are Polysaccharide
Polysaccharide
Polysaccharides are long carbohydrate molecules, of repeated monomer units joined together by glycosidic bonds. They range in structure from linear to highly branched. Polysaccharides are often quite heterogeneous, containing slight modifications of the repeating unit. Depending on the structure,...

 (polymers) composed of a single type of sugar monomer. For example, cellulose
Cellulose
Cellulose is an organic compound with the formula , a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β linked D-glucose units....

 is an unbranched homopolysaccharaide made up of glucose monomers connected via beta-glycosidic linkages; glycogen
Glycogen
Glycogen is a molecule that serves as the secondary long-term energy storage in animal and fungal cells, with the primary energy stores being held in adipose tissue...

is a branched form, where the glucose monomers are joined by alpha-glycosidic linkages.
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