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Disaccharide vs Heterodisaccharide - What's the difference?

disaccharide | heterodisaccharide |

As nouns the difference between disaccharide and heterodisaccharide

is that disaccharide is (carbohydrate) any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together while heterodisaccharide is (organic chemistry) any disaccharide composed of two different monosaccharides.

disaccharide

English

(wikipedia disaccharide)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (carbohydrate) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.

    • Hyponyms

    * sucrose * lactose * maltose * trehalose * turanose * cellobiose

    Coordinate terms

    * monosaccharide * trisaccharide * tetrasaccharide * oligosaccharide * polysaccharide

    heterodisaccharide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (organic chemistry) Any disaccharide composed of two different monosaccharides