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.
A monosaccharide containing six carbon atoms in the molecule (for example, C 6 H 12 O 6); d-glucose is the principal hexose in nature./hexÂ·ose/ (hekÂ´sÅs) a monosaccharide containing six carbon atoms in a molecule.hexose monophosphate shunt. metabolic pathway starting from glucose-6-phosphate, and leading to the production of NADPH for reductive syntheses, ribose sugars for nucleic acid synthesis and for the diversification and rearrangement of sugars. monosaccharide containing six carbon atoms in the molecule (for example, C 6 H 12 O 6); d-glucose is the principal hexose in nature. /hexÂ·ose/ (hekÂ´sÅs) a monosaccharide containing six carbon atoms in a molecule.