Given below are two statements.

Statements I: Maltose has two a-D-glucose units linked at C₁ and C₄ and is a reducing sugar:

Statements II: Maltose has two manosaccharides: a-D-glucose and b-D-glucose linked at C₁ and C₆ and its is a non-reducing sugar.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Option 1 - Both Statement I and Statement II are true.

Option 2 - Both Statement I and Statement II are false.

Option 3 - Statement I is true but Statement II is false.

Option 4 - Statement I is false but Statement II is true

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Payal Gupta | Contributor-Level 10

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Correct Option - 3

Detailed Solution:

$C_{12} H_{22} O_{11} + H_{2} O \to α - D - g l u c o s e + α - D - g l u c o s e$

In maltose, two units of a-D-glucose are linked by glycosidic linkage at C₁ and C₄ as shown.

a - D – glucose a - D - glucose

Maltose has hemiacetal link so it is reducing sugar.

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