Consider an amylose chain of 4000 glucose unit. At how many…

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Published on: August 13, 2026

Consider an amylose chain of 4000 glucose unit. At how many cleavage require to lower the average length to 400 units.

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Sol. For each fragment of 400 unit = = 10 fragments are obtained of 400 unit length.

So (10 – 1) = 9 glycosidic linkage cleaved.

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