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Starch is a monosaccharide true/false

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False!

Starch is a polysaccharide. Monosaccharide is the basic unit of carbohydrates and it is a simple sugar. Polysaccharide is composed of a large number of monosaccharide units bound by glycosidic bonds.
Starch consists of a large number of units of glucose, a monosaccharide, units bound by glycosidic bonds. This suggests that starch must be a polysaccharide.
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