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How is a disaccharide formed?

Dehydration reaction
What is the most common disaccharide?

sucrose
How does dehydration synthesis work?

One monomer gives up a hydroxyl group and the other gives up hydrogen atom from a hydroxyl group. As h20 forms, the oxygen atom links the 2 monomers.

Author

see.jerald

ID

77739

Card Set

3.5

Description

Cells link two single sugars to form disaccharides

Updated

2011-04-07T02:04:15Z