Classify the following carbohydrates as a monosaccharide, disaccharide, oligosaccharide, or polysaccharide:

(a) carageenan, a seaweed extract containing up to 25,000 carbohydrate units

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Welcome back, everyone. Classify the following carbohydrate am melos A Starch component that consists of several 100 glucose units. And we are given four answer choices. The first one states monosaccharide and we're going to state that this option is incorrect because mono sac rs consist of a one unit, right? So essentially, if we consider glucose, that would be one glucose unit disaccharide. As the name suggests, that'd be two units and we have several 100 glucose units. So it cannot be option B, option C states Oligo sac, right? Which is also incorrect. We have to recall that Oligo sac rights typically have we to 10 units. NLD polysac right is the correct option, polysac rights essentially have more than, than units. And in this case, as the problem suggests, we have several 100 glucose units. So basically, it's given in hundreds. And the only category that we can use would be a polysac R because any sac rite that has more than seven units can be classified as a polysac. So the correct answer to this problem would be option D polysac ride. Thank you for watching.