Hint: What is the function of stored sugar?
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Plants get sugar from photosynthesis, which they then convert to energy to live. Since plants cannot undergo photosynthesis all the time, like during winter when they lose their leaves, plants have to store sugar to live off of.
Now, starch is a chain of many sugars, so plants convert sugar to starch, and when they need the sugar, they break the chain, one segment of sugar at a time.
Starch is basically a way for plants to store sugars in an efficient long-term way.
Oh, and in case you didn't know this:
Potatoes basically are storage units of starch. In the summer and spring, potato plants produce sugar from photosynthesis, and store it in their roots. This forms the potato, and over the winter, the potato shrinks as the plant draws sugars from it. So, a potato is a big ball of starch!
Now, starch is a chain of many sugars, so plants convert sugar to starch, and when they need the sugar, they break the chain, one segment of sugar at a time.
Starch is basically a way for plants to store sugars in an efficient long-term way.
Oh, and in case you didn't know this:
Potatoes basically are storage units of starch. In the summer and spring, potato plants produce sugar from photosynthesis, and store it in their roots. This forms the potato, and over the winter, the potato shrinks as the plant draws sugars from it. So, a potato is a big ball of starch!
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