deoxyribose
A kind of sugar that originated from ribose by replacing a hydroxyl group with hydrogen
Deoxyribose is in your DNA
10 things you must know before you die
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deoxyribose
a sugar derived from ribose by replacement of a hydroxyl group by hydrogen
DNA is made of two linked strands that wind around each other to resemble a twisted ladder — a shape known as a double helix. Each strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar (deoxyribose) and phosphate groups. Attached to each sugar is one of four bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) or thymine (T).