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What are Differences between oligosaccharides and polysaccharides?

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Polysaccharides contain hunderds or thousands of simple sugurs, while oligosacharides contain few simple sugurs. (eg.Polysaccharide = glycogen, Oligosaccharide = Maltose)

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