The first is the prospect of a toxic Republican convention, which leading party officials want no part of, and which they will take care to avoid. We donât yet know how the Republican presidential nominating process will play out, but thereâs a real chance of a contested convention â at which things may get ugly.
Definition of monosaccharide. : a sugar that is not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis, is classed as either an aldose or ketose, and contains one or more hydroxyl groups per molecule âcalled also simple sugar.
Glucose, a common monosaccharide. Carbohydrates are classified according to size. The smallest carbohydrates are called monosaccharides ( mono means one; saccharide means sugar). As the name implies, these are single sugar molecules. The most common monosaccharides, such as fructose and glucose , have six carbon atoms, but monosaccharides can have as few as three or as many as seven.