Name the sugar present in milk.

Question:

Name the sugar present in milk. How many monosaccharide units are present

in it? What are such oligosaccharides called?

Solution:

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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