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Monosaccharides are the simplest fort of carbohydrates. They serve as the building blocks of disaccharides and polysaccharides. They basically provide the body with energy.

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What is the function of disaccharides?

The primary function of disaccharides is as a nutritional source of monosaccharides. Many of the sugars found in foodstuffs are disaccharides.


What is the function is disaccharides?

The primary function of disaccharides is as a nutritional source of monosaccharides. Many of the sugars found in foodstuffs are disaccharides.


What are building blocks of carbohydrates?

Monosaccharides .


How are starches and monosaccharides related?

starches and monosaccharides are carbohydrates, and monosaccharides make up starches, which is a polysaccharide.


Disaccharide is formed by the chemical bonding of?

Two Monosaccharides


What do you use monosaccharides for?

Monosaccharides are sugars; sugars are used for food.


What are chains of monosaccharides called?

Chains of monosaccharides are called polysaccharides.


What kind of molecules are made from monosaccharides?

Monosaccharides can combine to form disaccharides (two monosaccharides linked together), oligosaccharides (short chains of monosaccharides), and polysaccharides (long chains of monosaccharides). These molecules are types of carbohydrates that serve as energy sources in living organisms.


Single sugar molecules are also called?

monosaccharides


How are monosaccharides and polysaccharide related?

Polysaccharides are made up of of monosaccharides.


What is the chemical make up of monosaccharides?

The general formula of monosaccharides is C6H12O6.


Which of the four types of monosaccharides contains units called monosaccharides?

Carbohydrates