Essential Biochemistry - Carbohydrate Chemistry (Section 3 - No. 47)

D-galactose and D-glucose are:
Epimers of each other
Enantiomers of each other
Anomers of each other
Mirror images of each other

Explanation

D-galactose and D-glucose are epimers, differing in the configuration at one chiral center.

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