Question: what kind of bond is formed between 2 monomers of sugar to create a di- or poly-saccharide
Answer: Reducing disaccharides , in which one monosaccharide , the reducing sugar of the pair , still has a free hemiacetal unit that can perform as a reducing aldehyde group ; cellobiose and maltose are examples of reducing disaccharides , each with one hemiacetal unit , the other occupied by the glycosidic bond , which prevents it from acting as a reducing agent .