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yes, because it's made up of glucose and galactose. These 2 sugars are monosaccharides that have an aldehyde at their C1 end in their linear form, thus they're both aldoses. Therefore lactose is an aldose.

Lactose is also a reducing sugar, and both glucose and galactose that make up lactose are hexoses (6-membered sugar rings).

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