Carbohydrates {sugar}| can be disaccharides. Glycosidic bonds link two monosaccharides. Sucrose, in sugar cane, sugar beets, and corn syrup, has fructose and glucose. Maltose, in malt, has two glucoses.
Lactose, in milk, has galactose and glucose. Lactase gene, for lactose digestion, can stay active after infancy. Regulatory-region mutations happened in Funnel Beaker culture of Sweden and Holland [-4000 to -3000], in Nilo-Saharan peoples of Kenya and Tanzania [-4800 to -700], in Beja people of northeast Sudan [-4800 to -700], and in Afro-Asiatic peoples of north Kenya [-4800 to -700].
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