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  1. Ten glucose molecules = C60H120O60. But remember that nine H2O's are removed to form C60H102O51.

  2. Structural features of the monosaccharides are described in Ch. 16.4 of Campbell.

  3. Pyranose sugars have a six-membered ring form that can adopt either chair or boat coformations. The chair is favored for steric reasons in solution.

  4. Glycosidic bonds join a sugar at its anomeric carbon to another sugar via one of its OH groups.

  5. Ribose is the only sugar found in nucleic acids. The rest of the sugars are involved in energy metabolism.

  6. Ribose, a five carbon sugar, is not part of glycolysis.
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