Questions tagged [sugar]
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Why are disaccharides less reducing than monosaccharides?
My teacher told me the statement, but if both monosaccharide and disaccharides have a single free active group, how is this possible?
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Simplest known form of aerobic glycolysis
What is the simplest known way that an organism performs aerobic glycolysis? In other words, what is the simplest known way known to convert glucose into $\ce{H2O}$ and $\ce{CO2}$, other than by ...
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Does Invertase catalyse the hydrolysis of other sugars other than sucrose?
I recently did a lab where we tested out the substrate specificity of Invertase on different types of sugars such as sugar alcohols and disaccharides, measured by the absorbance of red using a ...
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How much ribose do we eat?
I am wondering how much ribose we ingest as food? (Deoxy)Ribose is found in the backbone of DNA and RNA. So, we eat ribose as part of the nucleic acid found in plant and animal foods. While protein, ...
