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What is the sugar in a DNA nucleotide?

What is the sugar in a DNA nucleotide?
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What is the sugar in a DNA nucleotide?

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deoxyribose

Step-by-step explanation:

Both DNA and RNA are built with a sugar backbone, but whereas the sugar in DNA is called deoxyribose, the sugar in RNA is called simply ribose .

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