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Vu also recommended using an invert sugar, which is a liquid mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose.

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High fructose corn syrup, also used in processed foods, is a mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose.

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Fructose, a monosaccharide known as "fruit sugar," is a common dietary sugar found naturally in fruit, honey, and processed foods.

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Alliums store their energy in polysaccharides, which are chains of monosaccharides, or simple sugars.

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The final key component of Li and colleagues’ system is another hairpin DNA, which contains a complementary sequence to the monosaccharide code and a sequence that can displace the protein code from a double helix.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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