Engineering
Chemistry
Nucleic acid
Question
Ribose and deoxyribose differ in structure around a single carbon, namely :
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Solution
The pentose sugar in DNA is called deoxyribose, and in RNA, the sugar is ribose. The difference between the sugars is the presence of the hydroxyl group on the 2' carbon of the ribose and its absence on the 2' carbon of the deoxyribose.
Option B is correct.
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