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Monosaccharides are also known as what 1 Point

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also called simple sugars, they are the most basic units of carbohydrates 
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Simple sugars;

Explanation;

-Monossachrides are also known as simple sugars. they include, glucose and galactose.

-They are the building blocks of other carbohydrates such as disaccharides (e.g sucrose, maltose) and polysaccharides (e.g startch and celluose)

-Two monosaccharides joined together forms a disaccharide , for example two glucose molecules forms maltose. Many monosaccharides joined together forms a polysaccharide.

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