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.
What is a monosaccharide? They are the simple sugars in a carbohydrate (ex. glucose) All  carbohydrates, whether it be simple glucose or complex starch, are  classified as a sugar. Any of a class of â¦carbohydrates that can't  be broken down into simple sugars by hydrolysis. A monosaccharide  is the most basic unit of carbohydrates and the simplest form of  sugars.