If it is criminal to leave a 13-year old alone to babysit children, then I am one guilty editor with a lot of guilty girlfriends. The summer I turned 12, I was working as a mother's helper for a woman who had two young girls. She would regularly leave me unattended to watch the girls while she ran errands.
Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates and may be subcategorized as aldoses or ketoses. The sugar is an aldose if it contains an aldehyde functional group. A ketose signifies that the sugar contains a ketone functional group.
Carbohydrates are usually composed solely of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, although some also contain nitrogen, sulfur, or phosphorus. 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.ligosaccharides (oligo means few) are more complex carbohydrates composed of chains of two or a few (up to about twenty) simple sugars joined with a type of covalent bond called a glycosidic bond. The longer oligosaccharides may be linear or branched.