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Aldohexoses are six carbon sugars with four chirality centres and an aldehyde carbonyle group. There are 16 possible stereoisomerc aldohexoses. D-glucose and D-manmose are X of each other X is :

A.

epimer

B.

anomer

C.

enantiomer

D.

diasteromer

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D-manmose and D-glucose differ at configuration at C–2 only hence they are epimer.