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Monosaccharide vs Heterodisaccharide - What's the difference?

monosaccharide | heterodisaccharide |

As nouns the difference between monosaccharide and heterodisaccharide

is that monosaccharide is (carbohydrate) a simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring while heterodisaccharide is (organic chemistry) any disaccharide composed of two different monosaccharides.

monosaccharide

English

(wikipedia monosaccharide)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (carbohydrate) A simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring.

    • Hyponyms

    * triose * tetrose * pentose * hexose * heptose * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * disaccharide * trisaccharide * tetrasaccharide * oligosaccharide * polysaccharide

    heterodisaccharide

    English

    Noun

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