Here are the answers to fill in the blanks:
- Lactose, the sugar in milk, is a disaccharide, because it can be split into two monosaccharides.
- A monosaccharide cannot be hydrolyzed any further.
- A simple sugar is composed of equal parts carbon and water, which gave rise to the general name of any sugar as a saccharide.
- A carbohydrate that yields many monosaccharides when hydrolyzed is a polysaccharide.