What are monosaccharide and what are the sources of monosaccharide?

Monosaccharides are produced through the reduction of di-/polysaccharides in the case of animals. Plants on the other hand, produce monosaccharides (glucose) through photosynthesis. They take the...

Disaccharide. ( meaning two saccharides )

they are the simple sugars in a carbohydrate (ex. glucose)Yes. All carbohydrates, whether it be simple glucose of complex starch, are classified as a sugar.

Glucose is a monosaccharide ......................... and frutose

Classification of carbohydrates starts from the simplest monosaccharides. They can be represented by the empirical formula of (C - H2O)n. 'n' denotes the number of carbon atoms. If a monosaccharide...