Carbohydrates

• What are carbohydrates?

  Molecules that consist only of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and they are long chains of sugar units called saccharids
• what is a single monomer called?

  a monosaccharide
• what is a pair of monomers called?

  a disaccharide
• what is the result of combining many monomers?

  results in the formation of a polysaccharide
• How are many monosaccharides combined to form a polysaccharide?

  these are all joined together with a GLYCOSIDIC BOND formed in a CONDENSATION REACTION