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Assertion : sucrose is known as invert s...

Assertion : sucrose is known as invert sugar
Reason : sucrose is a disaccharide

A

If both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.

B

If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.

C

If assertion is true but reason is false.

D

If the assertion and reason both are false.

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The correct Answer is:
B
Hydrolysis of sucrose is known as inversion of cane sugar because sucrose produce equimolecular mixture of glucose and fructose. Sucrose is dextro-rotatory while glucose and fructose mixture is laevorotatory. Sucrose is disaccharide.
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