noun
- plural of ketose; simple sugars containing a ketone group
Usage: biochemistry
Examples
- Fructose and ribulose are common ketoses found in biological systems.
- The laboratory analysis identified several ketoses in the plant extract.
- Ketoses differ from aldoses in their functional group structure.
- Students learned to distinguish between ketoses and other types of sugars.
- The enzyme specifically acts on ketoses rather than aldoses.
- Researchers studied the metabolic pathways involving these ketoses.