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What is bigger a monosaccharide or a disaccharide

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disaccaride is bigger

just measure them and you will see

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User Smashedtoatoms
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The prefix mono- means single.

The prefix di- means two.

A monosaccharide is only a single sugar, so disaccharide is bigger.

Hope this helps! :)

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