How do you use Monosaccharide in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like carbohydrate or sugar, plus the exact meaning.
Monosaccharide meaning
A simple sugar that has a single ring, such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose.
Synonyms of Monosaccharide
Using Monosaccharide
- The main meaning on this page is: A simple sugar that has a single ring, such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose.
- Useful related words include: monosaccharose, simple sugar, carbohydrate, saccharide.
- In the example corpus, monosaccharide often appears in combinations such as: monosaccharide units, ten monosaccharide, two monosaccharide.
Context around Monosaccharide
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Monosaccharide
- In this selection, "monosaccharide" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ten, two, aldose, units, formula and conjugates stand out and add context to how "monosaccharide" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a ketose monosaccharide of the and a monosaccharide can switch. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "monosaccharide" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with monosaccharide
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Crystalline fructose is the monosaccharide, dried, ground, and of high purity. (11 words)
Because of this asymmetry, a number of isomers may exist for any given monosaccharide formula. (15 words)
The glycoside bond is represented by the central oxygen atom, which holds the two monosaccharide units together. (17 words)
Capacity and rate of absorption The absorption capacity for fructose in monosaccharide form ranges from less than 5 g to 50 g (per individual serving) and adapts with changes in dietary fructose intake. (33 words)
A monosaccharide can switch from the acyclic (open-chain) form to a cyclic form, through a nucleophilic addition reaction between the carbonyl group and one of the hydroxyls of the same molecule. (32 words)
As a rule of thumb, polysaccharides contain more than ten monosaccharide units, whereas oligosaccharides contain three through ten monosaccharide units; but the precise cutoff varies somewhat according to convention. (29 words)
Example sentences (12)
As a rule of thumb, polysaccharides contain more than ten monosaccharide units, whereas oligosaccharides contain three through ten monosaccharide units; but the precise cutoff varies somewhat according to convention.
The number of open chain stereoisomers for an aldose monosaccharide is larger by one than that of a ketose monosaccharide of the same length.
A monosaccharide can switch from the acyclic (open-chain) form to a cyclic form, through a nucleophilic addition reaction between the carbonyl group and one of the hydroxyls of the same molecule.
Because of this asymmetry, a number of isomers may exist for any given monosaccharide formula.
Both organic and inorganic forms of selenium are largely converted to monosaccharide conjugates (selenosugars) in the body prior elimination in the urine.
Capacity and rate of absorption The absorption capacity for fructose in monosaccharide form ranges from less than 5 g to 50 g (per individual serving) and adapts with changes in dietary fructose intake.
Crystalline fructose is the monosaccharide, dried, ground, and of high purity.
In a simple open-chain monosaccharide, every carbon is chiral except the first and the last atoms of the chain, and (in ketoses) the carbon with the keto group.
Many carbohydrates contain one or more modified monosaccharide units that have had one or more groups replaced or removed.
The Fischer projection is a systematic way of drawing the skeletal formula of an acyclic monosaccharide so that the handedness of each chiral carbon is well specified.
The glycoside bond is represented by the central oxygen atom, which holds the two monosaccharide units together.
They are formed by the combination of two monosaccharide molecules with the exclusion of a molecule of water.
Common combinations with monosaccharide
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: