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Monosaccharides
What do monosaccharids do?
Monosaccharides are the smallest carbohydrate molecules. They cannot be broken down into simpler carbohydrates, so they are also called simple sugars....
Is monosaccharide found in animals or plants?
Monosaccharide sugars are made by combining and recombining all those carbon atoms first trapped as 3PG. The most abundant and versatile of these mono...
How do monosaccharides differ?
Monosaccharides are simple sugar unit molecules, whereas polysaccharides are enormous, linking thousands of sugar units. Monosaccharides provide cells...
Which of the monosaccharides made up sucrose?
Sucrose (table sugar) is the most common disaccharide, which is composed of the monomers glucose and fructose. A polysaccharide is a long chain of mon...
What are the functions of monosachharides?
The two main functions of monosaccharides in the body are energy storage and as the building blocks of more complex sugars that are used as structural...
How are monosaccharides absorbed in the body?
How the body absorbs & transports broken-down carbohydrates in the body. The monosaccharide units, glucose, galactose and fructose are transported...