What is the monomeric form and the polymer form for carbohydrates?
1 Answer
Jun 19, 2018
See when we have a single molecule of carbohydrate we call it monosaccharide like glucose,then there is also starch, cellulose which are also carbohydrates but they are made up of thousands of molecules of glucose linked together by glycosidic linkages ,so we call them polysaccharide.
And since polymers can be simply understood as complex made from linking of same or different units(called monomers).
We can say that starch is polymer made up of glucose monomers