An aldohexose can exist in 16 isomeric forms.

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An aldohexose is a hexose with an aldehyde group on one end. The aldohexoses have four chiral centers for a total of $16$ possible aldohexose stereoisomers.
Of these, only three commonly occur in nature:
D-glucose,
D-galactose,
D-mannose.

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