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What is the sugar in deoxyribonucleic acid (dna)
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What is the sugar in deoxyribonucleic acid (dna)

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The sugar in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is deoxyribose. The deoxy prefix indicates that the 2' carbon atom of the sugar lacks the oxygen atom that is linked to the 2' carbon atom of ribose (the sugar in ribonucleic acid, or RNA).
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