As a hospital lab technician, you are responsible for mixing solutions to put into intravenous (IV) bags for patients. Many patients are unable to eat food on their own, so IV bags provide sugary liquid that enters directly in to the blood of patients. These people get their carbohydrates from the IV. You want to add a 5 mall carbohydrate to the solution so that it can easily move into the patient's cells. Which of the following molecules should you use in the IV solution?
a. glycogen
b. glucose
c. insulin
d. starch