The prefix di- means two. A disaccharide is composed of two monomers.
When many monomers are linked together, they form a polymer. Polymers are large molecules made up of repeating units called monomers, which are attached together through chemical bonds. This process is known as polymerization.
The monomers that make up fats are called fatty acids.
The monomers that make up lipids are fatty acids and glycerol.
Glucose monomers make up the polysaccharide starch.
No. Amino acid monomers are used to make protein polymers. Nucleotide monomers are used to make DNA polymers.
The monomers of proteins are amino acides. Amino acids make up proteins by combining into many different combinations. There are 20 amino acids that make up proteins.
Two monosaccharides that make up a disaccharide are glucose and fructose.
Table sugar, or sucrose, is made up of two monosaccharides: glucose and fructose. Glucose and fructose molecules combine to form a disaccharide molecule of sucrose through a condensation reaction.
The molecule composed of glucose bonded to fructose is sucrose. This disaccharide is commonly known as table sugar and is made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose bonded together.
Monomers are the building blocks that are used to make polymers. Remember: mono = one, poly = many Monomers are like the links in a chain and polymers are like the chain. Many chain links (monomers) make up a whole chain (polymer)
Fructose and glucose are found in sucrose.
A monomer carbohydrate, which is a monosaccharide, would be something like glucose, one molecule of a simple sugar. A disaccharide would be sucrose. A polymer carbohydrate, or polysaccharide, would be any starch, which is chains of monosaccharides.