GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -As disaccharides travel through the body they are broken down into simple sugars, or monosaccharides, by a process called hydrolysis. This process is facilitated by enzymes called maltases, sucrases, and lactases. These different enzymes help to break down different types of sugars in the body.

Detailed explanation-2: -Disaccharides are those carbohydrates that on hydrolysis with acids or enzymes give two molecules of monosaccharides which can either be the same or different. The oxide linkage is formed after the loss of the water molecule and then the two monosaccharides are formed by that linkage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of these disaccharides yields glucose as the only product. Enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis is selective for a specific glycoside bond, so an alpha-glycosidase cleaves maltose and trehalose to glucose, but does not cleave cellobiose or gentiobiose.

Detailed explanation-4: -Disaccharides (di-= “two”) form when two monosaccharides join together via a dehydration reaction, also known as a condensation reaction or dehydration synthesis.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dehydration synthesis reaction combines two monosaccharides (glucose) to create a disaccharide (maltose). There are three important disacchrides that we will discuss; sucrose, lactose, and maltose. In all three of these disaccharides, glucose is one of the monosacchrides that make them up.