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.
Biochemistry/Carbohydrates - Simple Carbohydrates (Monosaccharides) 1  These are used only for energy in living organisms. Simple carbohydrates are also known as Monosaccharides.The chemical formula for all the monosaccharides is CnH2nOn. 2  The suffix -oses is kept for the aldoses & the suffix -uloses is kept for the ketoses.