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photorespiration. In a plant cell, the breakdown of a two-carbon compound produced by the Calvin cycle. The Calvin cycle produces the two-carbon compound, instead of its usual three-carbon product G3P, when leaf cells fix O2, instead of CO2. Photorespiration produces no sugar molecules or ATP.
Certain carbohydrates called polysaccharides are made up of monomers called Monosaccharides. Monosaccharides are sugars that cannot be hydrolyzed further to yield simpler sugars. An example of a monosaccharide would be glucose, which can polymerize into Amylose which is one of the two components of starch. Amylose.