Meaning & use
ketose
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A simple sugar that contains a ketone group as part of its chemical structure.
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Fructose is a well-known ketose found naturally in fruit.
The biochemistry class compared the structure of a ketose to that of an aldose.
A note on using this word
Distinguished from an 'aldose,' which contains an aldehyde group instead; the distinction is a basic part of carbohydrate chemistry.
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