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What is the name of the sugar in the mrna nucleotides?

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The answer is ribose.

mRNA is actually messenger ribonucleic acid. As any other RNA (ribonucleic acid) it consists of a phosphate group, sugar ribose, and nucleobases (adenine, uracil, cytosine, guanine). So, it is called RIBOnucleic acid because it consists of sugar RIBOSE.
Take for example DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid. It is called DEOXYRIBOnucleic acid because it consists of sugar DEOXYRIBOSE.
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