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Deoxyribonucleotides (DNA) use which Pentose?

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Answer:deoxyribose

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The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of a typical mammalian cell contains about 3 × 109 nucleotides.

Nucleotides can be further broken down to phosphoric acid (H3PO4), a pentose sugar (a sugar with five carbon atoms), and a nitrogenous base (a base containing nitrogen atoms).

If the pentose sugar is ribose, the nucleotide is more specifically referred to as a ribonucleotide, and the resulting nucleic acid is ribonucleic acid (RNA). If the sugar is 2-deoxyribose, the nucleotide is a deoxyribonucleotide, and the nucleic acid is DNA.

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