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What is a monosaccharide?

What is a monosaccharide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A simple sugar such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose that has a single ring.
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Another common monosaccharide is fructose, also naturally present in plants, and abundant in honey.
The formation of caramel from sugars originating from a monosaccharide or disaccharide.
For calibration, standard monosaccharide solutions and inositol were used.
Bacteria, predominantly mutans streptococci, metabolize monosaccharide and disaccharide sugars to produce acid that demineralizes teeth and causes cavities.
Homopolysaccharides are defined as polysaccharides formed from only one type of monosaccharide.
Because each monosaccharide can link to more than one other monosaccharide, oligosaccharides can be branched.

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