Question

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.

Answer 1

They have a double-bonded oxygen in different locations

Answer 2

Answer:

They have a double-bonded oxygen in different locations.

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