Carbohydrates

• Carbohydrate's Monomer: monosaccharides; Polymer: polysaccharides
• anything that ends in ose is a sugar
• Carbon functions: main energy source, builds macromolecules
• There are two main categories of carbohydrates, simple sugars (mono and disaccharides) and complex (polysaccharides).
• Glucose is a very small form of sugar