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Glucose

OCR AS-level BiologyBiological MoleculesLesson 13 of 63

Glucose is a hexose sugar.

It consists of six carbon atoms and has the molecular formula C6H12O6.

There are two isomers of glucose: alpha-glucose and beta-glucose.

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