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#Question id: 27501


Which of the following statements regarding the reducing ability of a sugar is wrong?

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
  1. The aldehyde group of a saccharide is responsible for its reducing properties.

  2. Ketoses are not reducing sugars because they are not aldehydes.

  3. D-Glucose in predominantly in a cyclic hemiacetal form but it is a reducing sugar through the acyclic form with which the hemiacetal is in equilibrium.

  4. A methyl glucoside is not a reducing sugar.