If it is criminal to leave a 13-year old alone to babysit children, then I am one guilty editor with a lot of guilty girlfriends. The summer I turned 12, I was working as a mother's helper for a woman who had two young girls. She would regularly leave me unattended to watch the girls while she ran errands.
Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates and may be subcategorized as aldoses or ketoses. The sugar is an aldose if it contains an aldehyde functional group. A ketose signifies that the sugar contains a ketone functional group.
Monosaccharides, disaccharides and polyssaccharides; their function is mainly energy storage and structural. Monossacharides are the basic units that make up the carbohydrates. They are usually broken down by our metabolism in order to produce chemical energy (ATP) and thus keep our cells working. An example of monossacharide is the glucose .