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in match they haven't matched  sucrose to natural polymer.

a very basic thing. yet i want to know if sucrose is natural polymer or not and the source for the info.

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8 Apr 2008 19:03:41 IST
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sucrose is a disaccharide..its not a polymeric unit
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thats right ,it cannot be a polymer, it serves as the monomer for many other polymers.
polymers are those which r composed of long chains of same units.
sucrose on hydrolysis gives only 1 molecule of glucose and fructose,so its not a polymer.
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