Question

The milk sugar, lactose, is made up of glucose and galactose. What type of a carbohydrate is lactose?

Answer 1

You know what we call a sugar made from two simple sugars?

Answer 2

not realy

Answer 3

its been a wile since i heard it

Answer 4

Okay I can say that for one sugar it is called monosaccharide (mono meaning 1). Can you then guess what 2 would be?

Answer 5

disaccharide?

Answer 6

Exactly! Can you guess 3 too then?

Answer 7

i cant remember that prefix

Answer 8

Tri :)

1) mono
2) di
3) tri
4) tetra
5) penta
6) hexa
7) hepta
8) octa
9) nona
10) deca
and so on.

Answer 9

But I think you got the hang of it! :)

Answer 10

so whats polysaccharide?

Answer 11

Polysaccharide are long chains of saccharides (>10 I like to say).

Answer 12

ok well thanx

Answer 13

oligosaccharides is the connecting words as it cover for example 3-10

Answer 14

ok