BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

Detailed explanation-1: -1. Monosaccharides. Mono refers to one and saccharides mean sugar. The most common monosaccharides are glucose, galactose and fructose. Glucose is the most common monosaccharide which consists of 6 carbon atoms.

Detailed explanation-2: -saccharide (plural saccharides) (biochemistry) The unit structure of carbohydrates, of general formula CnH2nOn. Either the simple sugars or polymers such as starch and cellulose.

Detailed explanation-3: -Natural sugars, also called saccharides or carbohydrates, are polyhydroxylated aldehydes or ketones with the brute chemical formula Cn(H2O)m where n and m may be different. They are named by the suffix “-ose”. There are notably two families: ketoses and aldoses, containing from 3 to 7 carbon atoms for natural oses.

Detailed explanation-4: -Common table sugar is sucrose. Some other sugars are fructose, which is found in fruits; lactose, which is found in milk; and glucose, which is the most common sugar in the bodies of animals and plants.

Detailed explanation-5: -To explain how CHOs with a similar monomer composition can differ in their degree of digestion and absorption, we will give two examples: [1] sucrose and isomaltulose, and [2] amylose and amylopectin starch. 1) The disaccharides sucrose and isomaltulose are both composed of the two monomers glucose and fructose.