Polysaccharides are long molecules made from many units joined together.
Replies: I think this kind of behavior happens most often when you have very long molecules (the corn starch) in a solution (the water).
A string-knife, as you know, is a single long molecule.
With water, which is essential, the long molecules are wrapped inside membranes to form cells.
For longer molecules, the number of possible secondary structures is enormous.
DNA is a long molecule made up of individual molecules called nucleotides.
Dynein works by making long molecules, called microtubules, slide against each other.
Vast numbers of these sequences would be mixed together, generating longer molecules corresponding to every possible 70-digit sequence.
The long, unwieldy molecules are twisted and turned into their final, functional shapes.
Think of rubber as thousands of long molecules, like chains.