polysaccharide
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He sometimes recommends polysaccharide extract from turkey tail as a supplement for selected patients.
From National Geographic • Jan. 31, 2024
The process also activates pectin, an acidic polysaccharide present in many fruits that sets the jam into a spreadable gel.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023
For the other dispersion, they coated the particles with the polysaccharide chitosan, which contains positively charged amino groups in neutral or acidic environment.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023
Other genes worth targeting would be those controlling chitin, the hard polysaccharide that makes up insects’ exoskeleton.
From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023
Each individual polysaccharide which has been studied thus far yields only a single hexose, although the particular hexose obtained varies in different cases.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
Vocabulary lists containing polysaccharide
Biochemistry
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