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The Biological Significance Of Sugars Sugars are very important in our day-to-day lives; they have many significant functions such as giving out energy, providing utilisation or transport, providing protection and other such structural roles. They, along with starch and cellulose, are found in carbohydrates, which contain only 3 elements: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen of which there is always twice as much hydrogen as oxygen. Sugars are classified according to the number of carbon atoms present. For example, 3 carbons equal a triose, 5 carbons equal a pentose and 6 carbons equal a hexose etc. Carbohydrates are divided into two major groups, the sugars (monosaccharides and disaccharides) and the non-sugars (polysaccharides). Monosaccharides are a single sugar, which is made up of small molecules with low masses. These are always sweet tasting, soluble in water and form crystals when in solid form. Examples of monosaccharide sugars include alpha & beta glucose, ribose, fructose,...

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