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Any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal
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ketose
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n. (context carbohydrate English) A saccharide containing a ketone functional group.
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A ketose is a monosaccharide containing one ketone group per molecule . With three carbon atoms, dihydroxyacetone is the simplest of all ketoses and is the only one having no optical activity . Ketoses can isomerize into an aldose when the carbonyl group ...
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n. any monosaccharide sugar that contains a ketone group or its hemiacetal