Lactose

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. Also referred to as milk sugar

. A sugar found in milk

. Makes up around 2–8% of milk

. 0.216 g of lactose dissolves readily in 1 mL of water.

. Infants feed off their mother's milk. To digest it, an enzyme called lactase is used to absorb the molecule into two subunits; glucose and galactose.

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/lactoseintolerance/ http://www.lactose.com/ http://www.answers.com/topic/lactose?cat=technology

Robbie Tokar