b. Which is a reducing sugar, sucrose or glucose? How do you know?
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A reducing sugar is a type of sugar that has the ability to act as a reducing agent because it has a free aldehyde group or a free ketone group. Glucose is a reducing sugar because it has a free aldehyde group. Show more…
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