Question

How are monosaccharides related to monomers and polymers?

Answer 1

Monosacharides are the monomers of carbohydrates. They can be bonded together by a glycosidic bond to make a polymer which could be starch.

Explanation:

Monomer is an old Latin word that means one unit , mono is one and mer is unit. So monomer is a general term for any building unit in any type of molecule.

Poly means many , so a polymer is many monomers connected together.

Monosacharide is the name of the monomer in the carbohydrates group. So monocasharides combine to make a polyshacharide.

Sacharide means sugar.

There is another group of carbohydrates called disacharides where only two monomers combine. Di means two.