When Two Carbohydrates Are Epimers

question 48

Multiple Choice

When two carbohydrates are epimers:

• A) one is a pyranose, the other a furanose.
• B) one is an aldose, the other a ketose.
• C) they differ in length by one carbon.
• D) they differ only in the configuration around one carbon atom.
• E) they rotate plane-polarized light in the same direction.

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