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What do you understand by the term glycosidic linkage?

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The ethereal or oxygen linkage through which two monosaccharides are joined together by the loss of water molecule to form a molecue of disaccharide is caled glycosidic linkage. The glycosidic linkage in maltose molecule is shown below:
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