galactose
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Another enzyme produced by the bacteria, known as arabinose isomerase, then converts the galactose into tagatose.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
This enzyme enables the bacteria to generate galactose directly from glucose.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2026
Following her illness, Mills was diagnosed with galactosaemia, a rare genetic disorder affecting up to one in 45,000 babies which prevents her body from turning galactose into glucose.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2024
All mammals, including humans, make milk with carbohydrates in the same unique form: lactose, a sugar that is a fusion of two other sugars called galactose and glucose.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022
Talose is unfermentable, even though the arrangement of its upper three groups is the same as in the galactose and the lower three the same as in mannose.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
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