The document defines different types of carbohydrates including anomeric carbon, epimers, aldoses, ketoses, and reducing sugars. It provides glucose and fructose as examples of aldoses and ketoses respectively, and notes that glucose and ribose are reducing sugars capable of reducing ferric and cupric ions.

1. a) Anomeric carbon: The carbonyl carbon found in the open chain . Eg. C1 of Glucose
b) Epimers: Closely realted sugars, but differeing at only one carbon position. Eg: D-Glucose
and D-Galactose - C4 epimers
c) Aldose: Carbohydrates with aldehyde functional group. Eg. Glucose
d) Ketose: Carbohydrates with ketone functional group. Eg: Fructose
e) Reducing sugars : which are capable of reducing Ferric and curpric ions. Eg. Glucose, Ribose
Solution
a) Anomeric carbon: The carbonyl carbon found in the open chain . Eg. C1 of Glucose
b) Epimers: Closely realted sugars, but differeing at only one carbon position. Eg: D-Glucose
and D-Galactose - C4 epimers
c) Aldose: Carbohydrates with aldehyde functional group. Eg. Glucose
d) Ketose: Carbohydrates with ketone functional group. Eg: Fructose
e) Reducing sugars : which are capable of reducing Ferric and curpric ions. Eg. Glucose, Ribose