NUTRITION
CARBOHYDRATES
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Question
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A carbohydrate that is found only in DNA is ____
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Sucrose
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Ribose
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Deoxyribose
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Lactose
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -DNA has deoxyribose sugar. It is called so due to the absence of one oxygen in the second carbon (as seen in the image). RNA is made of ribose sugar.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carbohydrates-Ribose. Ribose and its related compound, deoxyribose, are the building blocks of the backbone chains in nucleic acids, better known as DNA and RNA. Ribose is used in RNA and deoxyribose is used in DNA.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is deoxyribose? The Deoxyribose definition is a pentose (5-carbon sugar) biological molecule. Deoxyribose sugar, along with phosphate, makes up the sugar-phosphate backbone in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA is the genetic code present in living organisms.
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