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Using the words glucose, fructose, and sucrose, explain the composition of sugar on the molecular level.

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Table sugar, also known as sucrose is a disaccharide that is made up of two monosaccharides, glucose and fructose.

Each molecule of sugar contains 12 carbon atoms, 22 hydrogen atoms and 11 oxygen atoms.

Step-by-step explanation:

Textbook definition of disaccharide - Any of a class of sugars whose molecules contain two monosaccharide residues

Textbook definition of monosaccharide - Any of the class of sugars

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