The Molecular Biology Notebook Online
Galactose
A six-carbon sugar that is an optical isomer of glucose, but is less sweet and less soluble. Galactose is found in milk, sugar beet, seaweed, and in nerve and brain tissue.
View the molecule (D-Galactose) in Rasmol
View Dr Chromo's lecture on 'Plasmids and vectors'.
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