Monosaccharide A simple sugar

Monosaccharide a simple sugar a building block for polymeric, complex carbohydrates. 

Monosaccharide A simple sugar, such as glucose. It usually has 6 carbon, 12 hydrogen, and 6 oxygen atoms with the formula (CH20)x, where x can be any number of repeating CH20 units. 

MONOSACCHARIDE A simple sugar, made up of three to nine... 

Monosaccharide A simple sugar, the basic units from which disaccharides and polysaccharides are composed. The nutritionally important monosaccharides are the pentoses (five-carbon sugars) ribose and deoxyribose and the hexoses (six-carbon sugars) glucose, galactose and fructose. 

A carbohydrate is composed of carbon (carbo-), and hydrogen and oxygen (-hydrate). The simplest carbohydrates are the monosaccharides that have the general formula (CH20) where n is 3 or more. A monosaccharide or simple sugar, consists of a carbon chain with a number of hydroxyl (OH) groups and... 

Monosaccharides, or simple sugars, are carbohydrates that cannot be hydrolyzed to simpler compounds. Figure 23-1 shows Fischer projections of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose. Glucose is a polyhydroxyaldehyde, and fructose is a polyhydroxy ketone. Polyhydroxyaldehydes are called aldoses (aid- is for aldehyde and -ose is the suffix for a sugar), and polyhydroxyketones are called ketoses (ket- for ketone, and -ose for sugar). 

Most important carbohydrates, such as starch and cellulose, are polymers composed of monomers called monosaccharides, or simple sugars. The monosaccharides are polyhydroxy ketones and aldehydes. The most important contain five carbon atoms (pentoses) or six carbon atoms (hexoses). One important hexose is fructose, a sugar found in honey and fruit. Its structure is... 

The simplest carbohydrates are called monosaccharides or simple sugars. Monosaccharides have three to seven carbon atoms in a chain, with a carbonyl group at either the terminal carbon (Cl) or the carbon adjacent to it (C2). In most carbohydrates, each of the remaining carbon atoms has a hydroxy group. Monosaccharides are usually drawn vertically, with the carbonyl group at the top. 

Monosaccharide (Section 27.2) A simple sugar having three to seven carbon atoms. 

Monosaccharide is another term for a simple sugar, such as glucose, which is not linked to any other... 

SECTIONS 24.8 AND 24.9 Carbohydrates, which are polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones, are the major structural constituents of plants and are a source of energy in both plants and animals. Glucose is the most common monosaccharide, or simple sugar. Two monosaccharides can be linked together by means of a condensation reaction to form a disaccharide. Polysaccharides are complex carbohydrates... 

Carbohydrates are divided into groups depending on how many monomers are combined by condensation polymerization monosaccharides (Latin saccharum, sugar ), disaccharides, trisaccharides (etc.), and polysaccharides. Monosaccharides are simple sugars that cannot be broken down into smaller carbohydrate units by acid hydrolysis. In contrast, hydrolysis of a disaccharide or trisaccharide yields two or three monosaccharides (either the same or different), while complete hydrolysis of a polysaccharide produces many monosaccharides (sometimes thousands of them). 

Monosaccharides, or simple sugars, cannot be converted to smaller carbohydrates. The general ending -ose denotes a sugar. In simple sugars, every carbon but one con-... 

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