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Monosaccharides vs Hexose - What's the difference?

monosaccharides | hexose |

As nouns the difference between monosaccharides and hexose

is that monosaccharides is while hexose is (carbohydrate) a sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms.

monosaccharides

English

Noun

(head)

    • hexose

    English

    (wikipedia hexose)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (carbohydrate) A sugar or saccharide containing six carbon atoms.
  • :Glucose is a common hexose

    • Hypernyms

    * monosaccharide

    Hyponyms

    * ketohexose :* psicose :* fructose :* sorbose :* tagatose * aldohexose :* allose :* altrose :* glucose :* mannose :* gulose :* idose :* galactose :* talose * fucose * fuculose * rhamnose