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| Simple, [[water|water]] soluble, [[Carbohydrate|carbohydrates]], for example [[Monosaccharides|monosaccharides]], [[disaccharides|disaccharides]] and [[Oligosaccharides|oligosaccharides]], may loosly be referred to as 'sugars'. They contain either an [[aldehyde|aldehyde]] of a [[ketose|ketose]] group and also contain -[[OH group|OH groups]]. By changing the orientation of the -OH groups around the carbon atoms can change the type of sugar. Sugars have the emperical formula CH<sub>2</sub>O and usually containg between 3 and 8 [[Carbon|carbon]] [[Atom|atoms]] <ref name="Molecular Biology of the cell">Molecular Biology of the cell (Alberts et. al)</ref>.
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