BCH101intermediate
Arrange these carbohydrate structures from smallest to largest: monosaccharide, disaccharide, oligosaccharide, polysaccharide.
Answer
Monosaccharide, Disaccharide, Oligosaccharide, Polysaccharide
Explanation
### The order
1. **Monosaccharide**: one sugar unit.
2. **Disaccharide**: two joined monosaccharides.
3. **Oligosaccharide**: a short chain of sugar units.
4. **Polysaccharide**: a long polymer of many sugar units.
### Remember
The prefixes progress from single units to longer chains.
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