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How are monosaccharides different from disaccharides?

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Saccharides are sugars or carbohydrates

The prefix mono means one
The prefix di means 2
Monosaccharides are 1 basic carbohydrate molecule
Disaccharides are 2 basic carbohydrate molecule

Crash course biology has a great video on this that explains the biological significance of proteins lipids carbohydrates and the nucleic acids

hope this helps


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