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Glucose is a monosaccharide containing six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group, hence it is an aldohexose.

It is a reducing sugar because it can reduce Tollens' and Fehling's reagents.

In its open-chain structure, glucose contains four chiral carbon atoms, and in its cyclic structure, it contains five chiral carbon atoms.

The cyclic structure of glucose is a hemiacetal, formed by the intramolecular reaction between the aldehyde group at C-1 and the hydroxyl group at C-5.

Answer: It is aldohexose.