Carbohydrates: FAILED TEST =(

I failed my carbohydrate test, but after my concept map I understood them more.  Monosaccharides are simple sugar bonds.  For example Glucose is a monosaccharide.  If there are six carbon atoms joined together its called a hexose. Two monosaccharides joined together are disaccharides.  When glucose and fructose (two monosaccharides) are joined together it forms a disaccharide called sucrose or table sugar.  Table sugar is used in many food products today.  Polysaccharides are polymers of monosaccharides. This means that they are part of each other  Polysaccharides are short-term energy storage molecules.  Examples of Polysaccharides are starches and glycogen. Plants store glucose as starch.  Animals store glucose as glycogen.  Cellulose is also a Polysaccharide, which is in plants.  Chitin is a polysaccharide in animals and fungi.  So as you can tell i did very horrible on my test but after i did my concept map i really understood carbohydrates better.

This table sugar is an example of a disaccharide.
Monosaccharide + Monosaccharide = Disaccharide.(table sugar)













This is a structure of a monosaccharide.
The picture below is Glucose, which is a monosaccharide.