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  4. The term anomers of glucose refers to:

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Q. The term anomers of glucose refers to:

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Anomers are cyclic monosaccharides or glycosides that are epimers i.e. differing from each other in the configuration of $C -1$, if they are aldoses, or in the configuration at $C -2$, if they are ketoses. Since glucose is an aldose, anomer of glucose refers to isomers of glucose that differ in configuration at carbon one $(C-1)$.