T. aquaticus is a bacterium that lives in hot springs and hydrothermal vents, and Taq polymerase was identified as an enzyme able to withstand the protein-denaturing conditions (high temperature) required during PCR. Therefore, it replaced the DNA polymerase from E. coli originally used in PCR. Taq's optimum temperature for activity is 75â80 Â°C, with a half-life of greater than 2 hours at 92.5 Â°C, 40 minutes at 95 Â°C and 9 minutes at 97.5 Â°C, and can replicate a 1000 base pair strand of DNA in less than 10 seconds at 72 Â°C.
Glucose and fructose are monosaccharides and are the building blocks of sucrose, a disaccharide. Thus, disaccharides are just a pair of linked sugar molecules. They are formed when two monosaccharides are joined together and a molecule of water is removed -- a dehydration reaction.
Some of the common Disaccharides are as follows. 1  Sucrose (table sugar, cane sugar, beet sugar): It is a white, odorless crystalline powder with a sweet taste. 2  Lactulose: It is a synthetic sugar used in the treatment of constipation and in the liver diseases.  Lactose (milk sugar): It is found in milk.