How the Molecular Structure of Carbohydrates, Proteins and Lipids affect their function in living things. Living cells contain many small molecules such as water and inorganic ions like nitrogen. They also contain a vast number of larger molecules, called macromolecules that are built ... immediate supply of glucose is used up the body restores its supplies by breaking down glycogen. Cellulose is an example of a structural polysaccharide, and it gives strength and rigidity to plant cell walls. Cellulose molecules are long unbranched chains of containing glycosidic linkages of B-glucose. The ...

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