compound sugar

noun

any sugar that when hydrolyzed yields two or more monosaccharides.

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A gene is responsible for generating the enzyme, lactase, needed to cleave the compound sugar in milk, lactose.

In each a stable chemical compound, sugar in the one case, albumen in the other, undergoes extraordinary chemical changes under the influence of an excessively minute quantity of a substance which, regarded chemically, we should suppose inert.

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