Would u sat that glucose or sucrose is more complex? Why? (Picture)

Glucose is a monosaccharide...think of it as a pure substance. In contrast, sucrose is a disaccharide (two monosaccharides joined together or a double sugar) - in the case of sucrose (which is your table sugar), this is made up of 1 glucose and 1 fructose that are joined together by a special bond called a glycosidic linkage (look at the joining between the two monosaccharides in the sucrose figure).

A molecule of glucose can't be broken down any further (other than say to be used in respiration as a carbon source to make energy). Sucrose, on-the-other-hand can be broken down through a reaction called hydrolysis (hydro is water and lysis is break) to generate the two monosaccharides - glucose and fructose.

pristina pristina · Answer 2 · 2021-10-22T13:33:36+02:00

Carbohydrates are polyhydroxy aldehydes or polyhydroxy ketones, or compounds that can be hydrolyzed to them.

Monosaccharides are simple carbohydrates. They consist of a single polyhydroxy aldehyde or ketone unit.

Disaccharides are made up of two monosaccharide units joined together by glycosidic linkage.

Glucose is a monosaccharide. They are already in their simplest form, they don't need to broken down before they can be absorbed.

Sucrose is a disaccharide. It is made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose joined together by the glycosidic linkage.

Sucrose is more complex than glucose because they must be broken down into simple sugars before they can be absorbed.

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