Is sucrose found in the human body? In a plant, glucose is transported as sucrose, so is it the same in humans?
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Sucrose is common table sugar. It is a disaccharide, a molecule composed of two monosaccharides: glucose and fructose. ... For human consumption, sucrose is extracted, and refined, from either sugar cane or sugar beet.
Animals have to digest sucrose into it's component sugars before it can be absorbed. Turning it back into sucrose afterwards would take energy and have no real benefit so it has had no reason to evolve.
No, it is not same in the humans
Transportation of glucose or sucrose is different in plants and humans.
Sucrose = glucose + fructose bound together. Obviously, a larger molecule has the disadvantage of inherent decreased cell membrane permeability except if you're using transporter constructs.
Glucose metabolism largely comes standard across human cells. Meanwhile, sucrose must first be split into glucose and fructose, then the fructose must largely be metabolize
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