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monosaccharide

simple sugars such as glucose and fructose
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monosaccharide
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Summary

monosaccharide is a structural class of chemical entities[1]. monosaccharide ranks in the top 6% of structural class of chemical entities entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,468 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Followed by: disaccharide[3]
  • Subclass of: carbohydrate[4]
  • Part of: monosaccharide binding[5], monosaccharide metabolic process[6], monosaccharide biosynthetic process[7], monosaccharide catabolic process[8], cellular response to monosaccharide stimulus[9], monosaccharide transmembrane transporter activity[10], ABC-type monosaccharide transporter activity[11], monosaccharide transmembrane transport[12], response to monosaccharide[13]
  • Commons category: Monosaccharides[14]
  • Has part(s): carbon[15], oxygen[16], hydrogen[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Monosaccharides[18]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19]
  • Monomer of: polysaccharide[20]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]

Why It Matters

monosaccharide has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] monosaccharide is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

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Saint-Nabor

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995). wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → structural class of chemical entities
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 24524, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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