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Is maltose a monosaacharide

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Maltose, by definition, is a disaccharide made up of two molecules of glucose, so it cannot be a monosaccharide. Glucose itself, however, is a monosaccharide. Monosaccharides are the most basic units of carbohydrates and form the links in much larger chains of polysaccharides.

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