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Which one is a disaccharide ?
Which one is a disaccharide ?
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The correct option is D Sucrose
Well this is just a question of memory. If you remember the table of monosaccharides that we went through, you might have guessed that xylose, glucose and fructose are monosaccharides.
What are monosaccharides again? They are carbohydrates which cannot be further broken down into smaller carbohydrates on hydrolysis.
So, disaccharides are carbohydrates which can be broken down into 2 monosaccharides units on hydrolysis.
Sucrose is an example of disaccharides which gets broken down into glucose and fructose on hydrolysis in an acidic mediuim.
Sucrose
Well this is just a question of memory. If you remember the table of monosaccharides that we went through, you might have guessed that xylose, glucose and fructose are monosaccharides.
What are monosaccharides again? They are carbohydrates which cannot be further broken down into smaller carbohydrates on hydrolysis.
So, disaccharides are carbohydrates which can be broken down into 2 monosaccharides units on hydrolysis.
Sucrose is an example of disaccharides which gets broken down into glucose and fructose on hydrolysis in an acidic mediuim.
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