Get to know Disaccharides better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Disaccharides meaning
plural of disaccharide
Using Disaccharides
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of disaccharide
- In the example corpus, disaccharides often appears in combinations such as: disaccharides and, of disaccharides, disaccharides are.
Context around Disaccharides
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Disaccharides
- In this selection, "disaccharides" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 18.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, monosaccharides, glycogen, notable and include stand out and add context to how "disaccharides" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include disaccharides found in and disaccharides like lactose. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "disaccharides" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with disaccharides
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Like monosaccharides, disaccharides are soluble in water. (7 words)
Disaccharides: Found in milk, yogurt, and soft cheese (lactose). (9 words)
Disaccharides like lactose or sucrose are cleaved into their two component monosaccharides. (12 words)
What is notable about sucrose is that, unlike most disaccharides, the glycosidic bond is formed between the reducing ends of both glucose and fructose, and not between the reducing end of one and the nonreducing end of the other. (39 words)
Glycolysis Glucose metabolism and various forms of it in the process Glucose-containing compounds and isomeric forms are digested and taken up by the body in the intestines, including starch, glycogen, disaccharides and monosaccharides. (34 words)
Other notable disaccharides include maltose (two D-glucoses linked α-1,4) and cellulobiose (two D-glucoses linked β-1,4). (21 words)
Example sentences (11)
Although there are numerous kinds of disaccharides, a handful of disaccharides are particularly notable.
Disaccharides: Found in milk, yogurt, and soft cheese (lactose).
Sugars are considered to be mono and disaccharides and this will include glucose, sucrose, fructose and lactose.
Disaccharides like lactose or sucrose are cleaved into their two component monosaccharides.
Glycolysis Glucose metabolism and various forms of it in the process Glucose-containing compounds and isomeric forms are digested and taken up by the body in the intestines, including starch, glycogen, disaccharides and monosaccharides.
Like monosaccharides, disaccharides are soluble in water.
Many organisms also have the ability to metabolize other monosaccharides and disaccharides but glucose is often metabolized first.
Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides contain one, two, and three or more sugar units, respectively.
Other notable disaccharides include maltose (two D-glucoses linked α-1,4) and cellulobiose (two D-glucoses linked β-1,4).
Sucrose and trehalose are examples of non-reducing disaccharides because their glycosidic bond is between their respective hemiacetal carbon atoms.
What is notable about sucrose is that, unlike most disaccharides, the glycosidic bond is formed between the reducing ends of both glucose and fructose, and not between the reducing end of one and the nonreducing end of the other.
Common combinations with disaccharides
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- disaccharides and 3×
- of disaccharides 2×
- disaccharides are 2×
- and disaccharides 2×
- monosaccharides disaccharides 2×