11 Biology by Amjad Umer Ranjha
Lec # 6 Oligosaccharides
Ch 2 Lec 6 Oligosaccharides, Class 11 Biology
Oligosaccharides are carbohydrates or sugars containing 2 to 10 monosaccharide units in them. These can be disaccharides, trisaccharides and so forth upto decasaccharides. Sucrose, maltose and lactose are disaccharide sugars. Glycosidic bonds are present among monosaccharides in oligosaccharides.