Talk:Monosaccharide
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · history · refresh · how to use this template) high school/SAT biology content, part of carbohydrates; changed importance from top to high for consistency with disaccharide - tameeria 15:05, 18 February 2007 (UTC) |
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[edit] monosaccharide
What are the origins of this word?
- Greek mono-, "one", and saccharide, "sugar" (literally "son of sugar" I guess...). —Keenan Pepper 08:49, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Have added etymology note. Thanks for pointing out. Sign posts. Richard001 04:02, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reducing
Needs some info re them being reducing sugars and also something (at least a link) to/about Benedict's reagent --Bob - 21:36, 11 May 2008 (UTC)--
