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

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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