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Illustrate the structural and functional difference between glucose and fructose?

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Question: ) ✨ Illustrate the structural and functional difference between glucose and fructose?

Answer: We know that Glucose is six membered ring, while fructose is a five-membered ring. Both rings contain an oxygen atom.Glucose and fructose are structural isomers: have the same chemical formula but have different arrangement of atoms. While glucose has aldose sugar- carbonyl group at the end of the chain, fructose has ketose sugar- carbonyl group in an internal of the chain (specifically, at the second carbon.

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