: an aldose sugar that occurs in bound form in the dextrorotatory form in various glycosides and in the levorotatory form in some brown algae and in mammalian polysaccharides typical of some blood groups
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For example, these bacterial recorders could detect the presence of the sugar fucose in a human’s gut, indicating an infection.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2018
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Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2018
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fucose
noun
fu·cose
ˈfyü-ˌkōs, -ˌkōz 
: an aldose sugar that occurs in bound form in the dextrorotatory D-form in various glycosides and in the levorotatory L-form in some brown algae and in mammalian polysaccharides typical of some blood groups
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