it refers to the breakdown of glucose

Another name that refers to "sugar" is "glucose".

glucogenesis

For one, dextrose and glucose are both monomers, or to be specific, monosaccharides.

Dextrose and glucose are essentially the same thing, except that dextrose is specifically D-glucose. There exists two stereoisomeric forms of glucose, being D-glucose and L-glucose. "D" refers to "right" and "L" refers to "left". Essentially stereoisomeric means that D-glucose and L-glucose are mirror images of each other. T

The difference between L-glucose and R-glucose is that L-glucose cannot be metabolized during glycolysis which is a component of cellular respiration.

glucogenesis