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What are monosaccharides?



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Monosaccharides are carbohydrates that cannot behydrolysed further to give simpler units of polyhydroxy aldehyde or ketone.

Monosaccharides are classified on the bases of numberof carbon atoms and the functional group present in them. Monosaccharidescontaining an aldehyde group are known as aldoses and those containing a ketogroup are known as ketoses. Monosaccharides are further classified as trioses,tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, and heptoses according to the number of carbonatoms they contain. For example, a ketose containing 3 carbon atoms is calledketotriose and an aldose containing 3 carbon atoms is called aldotriose.

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