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Answer for the clue "Nucleic acid sugar ", 6 letters:
ribose

Alternative clues for the word ribose

Adenosine component
Biochemical sugar
A pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid
RNA sugar
Monosaccharide in guanosine
RNA component

Word definitions for ribose in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ribose is a carbohydrate with the formula CHO; specifically, it is a pentose monosaccharide (simple sugar ) with linear form H−(C=O)−(CHOH)−H, which has all the hydroxyl groups on the same side in the Fischer projection . The term may refer to either of ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1892, from German Ribose (1891), from Ribonsäure , a tetrahydroxy acid, with first element shortened and arbitrarily rearranged from English arabinose (c.1880), a sugar which is so called because it is formed from gum arabic .