noun
- A five-carbon sugar (pentose) found in plant cell walls and various polysaccharides; used in biochemistry and food science.
Usage: technical; chemistry/biochemistry term
Examples
- Arabinose is a pentose sugar commonly found in the cell walls of plants.
- The laboratory technician identified arabinose in the polysaccharide sample.
- Arabinose fermentation is used to distinguish certain bacterial species in microbiology.
- Plant cell walls contain arabinose as part of their hemicellulose structure.
- The sugar arabinose plays an important role in bacterial metabolism.