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Carbs are made up of which monomer?

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The most common polysaccharides are built solely with glucose monomers, while significant structural differences between these polysaccharides arise mainly from the position and number of the glycosidic linkages in each glucose unit.

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Answer:

monosaccharides

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Monomers are the building blocks of the four basic macromolecules of life- monosaccharides are the monomers of carbohydrates, amino acids are the monomers of proteins, glycerol/fatty acids are the monomers of lipids, and nucleotides are the monomers of DNA.

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