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Glucose and mannose are :...

Glucose and mannose are :

A

Epimers

B

Anomers

C

ketohexoses

D

Disaccharides

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Glucose and mannose are epimers because they both differ in configuration at C-2 an dthe isomer which differ at `C_(2)` position are known as epimers of each other
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