Capable of hydrolyzing or otherwise breaking down a sugar molecule. Origin: saccharo-_ G. Lysis, loosening. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 3 October 2005, at 21:16.This page has been accessed 14,911 times. What links here | Related changes | Permanent link.
There is a unit for measuring the distance from the earth to the sun known as an astronomical unit. This is 149,597,870,691Km (~93 million miles) plus or minus 30Km. You can use an astronomical unit to compare distances against the distance between the earth and sun e.g the distance between the sun and Mars is 1.52 AU.
1 Saturn is 886 million miles, or 1426 million kilometres, from the Sun. 2  Distances from the Sun are measured in Astronomical Units (AU). 3  The Earth is the standard unit, and is one AU from the Sun, so an AU equals 150 million kilometres (93 million miles), the distance of the Earth from the Sun.