Can some tell me what the correct answer is? I accidently selected carbon but I

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Can some tell me what the correct answer is? I accidently selected carbon but I don't know if that is the correct one or not

5. INTRODUCTION Monosaccharides are present in biological systems mainly in the cyclic form. An aldehyde monosaccharide forms a hemiacetal group (below right). C½OH OH OH H OH OH CH2OH HO H OH The hemiacetal can be seen as the combination of two functional groups-an hydroxyl ( OH) and ether (-C-O-C-) attached to the same carbon. The third bonding position on this shared carbon is occupied by a carbon. The fourth bonding position on this shared carbon is occupied by a: hydrogen oxygen carborn another hydroxyl group another ether group

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another hydroxy group

Reason : Since hydroxy group will attack to the carbonyl group and generate a new hydroxy group.

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