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Monosaccharides

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Choose the correct option from the brackets:
(i) A simple sugar (glucose, maltose, sucrose, cellulose)

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Solution

Answer: Glucose.

Glucose (grape sugar) is a simple sugar or monosaccharides that is consist of a single simple sugar unit and can not be broken down into simpler sugar units.

Other examples of simple sugars are fructose (fruit sugar), galactose (milk sugar).

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