Why are polysaccharides more difficult to digest than monosaccharides?

Polysaccharides are the complex carbohydrates that are formed by many units of simple sugar, which is also called monosaccharide.

They are large organic molecules having large number of glycosidic bond (formed between two simple sugar molecules) and therefore large amount of energy is required to break/digest them.

Moreover, they can not be absorbed in this form through gastrointestinal tract.

On the contrary, monosaccharide (simple sugar such as glucose) can be readily absorbed through gastrointestinal tract.

Thus, polysaccharides are more difficult to digest as compared to monosaccharides.

carbohydrates: (starches and sugars) composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

lipids: (fats, oils, and waxes) are made of carbon and hydrogen atoms.

nucleic acids: contain hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus. they are polymers of nucleotides. a nucleotide has three parts, a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate     (-po⬇️4) group, and a nitrogenous base.

proteins: made up of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. they are polymers of amino acids.

c.) polymerase chain reaction

- "unlike the original dna fingerprinting method, dna profiling does not use restriction enzymes to cut the dna. instead it uses the polymerase chain reaction (pcr)? to produce many copies of specific str sequences. pcr is an automated procedure that generates lots of copies of a specific sequence of dna."