Biology A-Level
Reducing versus non-reducing sugars
What Reducing versus non-reducing sugars means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Benedict's reagent heated with a reducing sugar turns from blue to a brick-red precipitate, while a non-reducing sugar needs prior hydrolysis with dilute acid, then neutralisation, before it gives that result.
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