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Differentiate between aldose and ketose sugars

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Aldose sugars contain an aldehyde group, whereas ketose sugars contain a ketone group.
Example of ketose sugars is Fructose, dihydroxyacetone, Xylulose etc
and that of aldose sugar is erythrose, threose etc

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