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Agriculture · Q396

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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 396

Q396

The milk sugar is

A.
Monosaccharide
B.
Disaccharide
Answer
C.
Oligosaccharide
D.
Polysaccharide

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The milk sugar is Disaccharide.
A disaccharide is the sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage.
Milk sugar (lactose) is a disaccharide made by condensation of one molecule of each of the monosaccharides glucose and galactose.