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Name the sugar present in milk. How many monosaccharide units are present in it? What are such oligosaccharides called?

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The sugar present in milk is lactose.

Lactose contains two monosaccharides, glucose and galactose.

Oligosaccharides containing two monosaccharide units are called disaccharides.


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