THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
DNA MAKES RNA MAKES PROTEIN
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Question
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True or False:The sugar in a nucleotide of DNA is called deoxyribose.
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True
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False
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -False-The sugar base in DNA is deoxyribose.
Detailed explanation-2: -DNA contains deoxyribose as the sugar component and RNA contains the sugar ribose.
Detailed explanation-3: -A nucleotide consists of a sugar molecule (either ribose in RNA or deoxyribose in DNA) attached to a phosphate group and a nitrogen-containing base. The bases used in DNA are adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T).
Detailed explanation-4: -Sugar is one of the fundamental parts of DNA. Deoxyribose is one of the two parts making up the sugar-phosphate backbone of all DNA strands, linking with a nitrogenous base in order to form a nucleotide. These link in pairs in great numbers forming the double helix shape of DNA.
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