Amylomaize
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Amylomaize starch is principally used in making biodegradable plastics (or bioplastics). It is also used in edible and digestible coatings. The food consumed on Apollo space flights from 1969 to 1972 were coated with an amylomaize film to prevent crumbs from floating around the space capsule.
Several years earlier Robert P. Bear had discovered and reported that waxy corn (100% amylopectin starch) also occurred as a mutation. Once discovered and reported, waxy mutations were found in the order of once every 30,000 observations.
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ProteinBiomolecule consisting of chains of amino acid residuesDNAMolecule that carries genetic informationEnzymeLarge biological molecule that acts as a catalystAmino acidOrganic compounds containing amine and carboxylic groupsCarbohydrateOrganic compound that consists only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygenGlucoseNaturally produced monosaccharide