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Sugar that's a component of RNA
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ribose
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n. a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid
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n. (context carbohydrate English) A naturally occurring pentose sugar, which is a component of the nucleosides and nucleotides that comprise the nucleic acid biopolymer, RNA. It is also found in riboflavin.
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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 ...