-->

Mineral Nutrition

Question
CBSEENBI11024916

Which of the following sugars is not plants?

  • sucrose

  • glucose

  • lactose

  • fructose

Solution

C.

lactose

Sucrose, Glucose and Fructose are found in plants. Sucrose is the commercial sugar which is obtained from sugarcane. Glucose is the main respiratory substrate in plants and animals. Fructose is commonly known as fruiting sugar. Lactose or milk sugar is found in sugar. It is the reducing sugar which is formed in the mammary glands of mammals through condensation of two hexose molecules.