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Monosaccharides.

Both words, monosaccharide and disaccharide break down into 2 parts. The 'saccharide' bit in each means 'sugar' and comes from an ancient Greek word. The prefixes 'mono' and 'di' mean 'one' and 'two' respectively, and again they're also from ancient Greek. If you break apart a disaccharide (a two-sugars) you get a monosaccharide (a one-sugar). Both Greek and Latin are used quite a bit in Biology (which stems from a time when if you were educated at all then you learn to read and write both languages). The prefixes here, the 'mono' and 'di' are used more broadly than just sugar chemistry.

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