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How are fructose and glucose different? They have a double-bonded oxygen in different locations. One is a monosaccharide and the other is a disaccharide. One has 6 carbon atoms and the other has 5 carbon atoms. They each have a unique molecular formula.

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They have a double-bonded oxygen in different locations
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Answer:

They have a double-bonded oxygen in different locations.

Step-by-step explanation:

Glucose and fructose are simplest sugar. They cannot be simplified further so, they are both monosaccharides. They have the same chemical composition but a different molecular, structure. Glucose is an aldo-sugar, its carbon attached to hydrogen through a single bond and oxygen by a double bond. Whereas fructose is a keto-sugar in which only oxygen atom attached to carbon by a single bond

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