What makes a sugar a sugar, chemically, is a carbonyl group: a carbon double-bonded to an oxygen. In an aldose, that group sits at carbon-1, the terminal position, giving the molecule an aldehyde functional group. In a ketose, the carbonyl is at carbon-2 (or occasionally carbon-3), producing a ketone.
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