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प्रश्न
Name the sugar present in milk. How many monosaccharide units are present in it? What are such oligosaccharides called?
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उत्तर
Lactose is commonly known as milk sugar since this disaccharide is found in milk. It is composed of β-D-galactose and β-D-glucose. The linkage is between C1 of galactose and C4 of glucose.

Lactose
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Write two main functions of carbohydrates in plants.
Classify the following into monosaccharides and disaccharides.
Ribose, 2-deoxyribose, maltose, galactose, fructose and lactose
Which of the following monosaccharide is pentose?
Monosaccharides usually contains ____________ carbon atoms.
Glucose can’t be classified as ____________.
Which of the following reagent cannot distinguish between glucose and fructose?
The pair of compounds in which both the compounds give the positive test with Tollen’s reagent is:
Three cyclic structures of monosaccharides are given below which of these are anomers.
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Structure of a disaccharide formed by glucose and fructose is given below. Identify anomeric carbon atoms in monosaccharide units.

Which of the following monosaccharides are present as five membered cyclic structure (furanose structure)?
(i) Ribose
(ii) Glucose
(iii) Fructose
(iv) Galactose
Name the linkage connecting monosaccharide units in polysaccharides.
What are glycosidic linkages? In which type of biomolecules are they present?
Assertion: Deoxyribose, \[\ce{C5H10O4}\] is not a carbohydrate.
Reason: Carbohydrates are hydrates of carbon so compounds which follow \[\ce{C_x(H2O)_y}\] formula are carbohydrates.
Account for the following:
Glucose is a reducing sugar



