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

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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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Which one of the following pairs of nutrients includes both as simple sugars (monosaccharides) ?

(a) Sucrose and glucose

(b) Glucose and maltose

(d) Maltose and lactose

Choose the correct combinations of the monosaccharides forming disaccharides.
i. Glucose + Glucose = Maltose ii. Glucose + Fructose = Lactose

iii. Glucose + Fructose = Sucrose iv. Glucose + Galactose = Lactose

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