The crystallizable form of starch, consisting of long unbranched polysaccharide chains.
〔生化〕直链淀粉
Example sentencesExamples
In vitro it will act on both amylose and amylopectin, and can catalyse the formation of large circular molecules from both of these substrates.
Wheat is mostly starch, which is a polymer - or chain - of glucose molecules containing amylose (the straight-chain form) and amylopectin (the branched-chain form).
Its starch consists of two kinds of glucose polymer: amylose and amylopectin.
But Thais were accustomed to rices that, like Thai people, stick together (stickiness is determined by the ratio of two different starches, amylose and amylopectin).
Another relevant class of biopolymers for which stretching measurements are available is constituted by polysaccharides, in particular cellulose, amylose, and dextran.
Definition of amylose in US English:
amylose
noun
Biochemistry
The crystallizable form of starch, consisting of long unbranched polysaccharide chains.
〔生化〕直链淀粉
Example sentencesExamples
Its starch consists of two kinds of glucose polymer: amylose and amylopectin.
Wheat is mostly starch, which is a polymer - or chain - of glucose molecules containing amylose (the straight-chain form) and amylopectin (the branched-chain form).
But Thais were accustomed to rices that, like Thai people, stick together (stickiness is determined by the ratio of two different starches, amylose and amylopectin).
Another relevant class of biopolymers for which stretching measurements are available is constituted by polysaccharides, in particular cellulose, amylose, and dextran.
In vitro it will act on both amylose and amylopectin, and can catalyse the formation of large circular molecules from both of these substrates.