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What is another term for simple?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 2/8/2022

Simple sugars may be called monosaccharides.

"Mono-" mean "one", so a simple sugar is one unit of the long molecules called polysaccharides, or complex carbohydrates.

Other terms include hexose (for a sugar with six carbon atoms in each molecule, such as glucose), pentose (5-C sugar, e.g. the sugars in DNA and RNA), and so on.
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Percival Sporer

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3y ago

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