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<biochemistry> Hexose identical to glucose except that orientation of H and OH on carbon 4 are exchanged.
A component of cerebrosides and gangliosides, glycoproteins. Lactose, the disaccharide of milk, consists of galactose joined to glucose by a _(1-4) glycosidic link.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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