Monosaccharides

What are Monosaccharides?

Monosaccharides are simple sugar such as fructose or glucose that cannot be decomposed by hydrolysis.

Description of monosaccharides

Monosaccharides are colorless crystalline substances with a sweet taste. Sometimes monosaccharides are commonly known as monosaccharide sugar. Monosaccharides are classified by size according to the number of carbon atoms in the chain of the monosaccharides. For example monosaccharides called dioses has tow carbon ring backbone, monosaccharide trioses has three carbon ring backbone, and monosaccharides heptose has seven carbon ring backbone.

What is the general formula of monosaccharides?

The general formula of a monosaccharide is  C_nH_2nO_n.

What are aldoses?

Monosacharides are further classified as aldoses. Aldoses are when carbonyl group is an aldehyde.

What are ketoses?

Monosaccharides are also further classified as ketoses. Ketoses are monosaccharides that contain a carbonyl or keto group in its straight chain form.