Chemistry 12th Edition

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ISBN 10: 0078021510
ISBN 13: 978-0-07802-151-0

Chapter 25 - Synthetic and Natural Organic Polymers - Questions & Problems - Page 1078: 25.24

Answer

Ribose is a pentose sugar, whereas deoxyribose is a hexose sugar. deoxyribose is found in RNA, whereas ribose is found in DNA. ribose binds a phosphate at the 3′ position, whereas deoxyribose binds a phosphate at the 2′ position. deoxyribose has one less oxygen molecule than ribose.

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