Which of the following statement is not true about glucose?

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🧠 Profiling Glucose
Glucose is the quintessential sugar of life. It’s an "Aldose" (contains an aldehyde group) and it has 6 carbons. In carbohydrate nomenclature, "pent-" means 5 and "hex-" means 6.

🗺️ Fact-Checking Glucose
- Nature: Glucose () is an Aldohexose. The prefix "aldo" identifies the aldehyde group () and "hexose" identifies the six carbon atoms. Therefore, calling it an "aldopentose" (5 carbons) is not true.  (a) is incorrect.
- Hydroxyl Groups: In its open-chain form, glucose has

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