Organic compound such as sugar or starch.

Carbohydrate composed of two monosaccharides.

Simple carbohydrate with the chemical formula C6H12O6 that is the nearly universal food for life.

Molecules with the same chemical formula but with atoms in a different arrangement.

Simple sugar such as glucose that is a building block of carbohydrates.

Chain of monosaccharides that makes up a complex carbohydrate, such as starch and glycogen.

Monosaccharides and disaccharides.

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Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates Vocabulary

Terms	Definitions
Carbohydrates	Organic compound such as sugar or starch.
Disaccharide	Carbohydrate composed of two monosaccharides.
Glucose	Simple carbohydrate with the chemical formula C6H12O6 that is the nearly universal food for life.
Isomers	Molecules with the same chemical formula but with atoms in a different arrangement.
Monosaccharide	Simple sugar such as glucose that is a building block of carbohydrates.
Polysaccharide	Chain of monosaccharides that makes up a complex carbohydrate, such as starch and glycogen.
Simple sugar	Monosaccharides and disaccharides.