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What does 'deoxyribo ' stand for?

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Anonymous

∙ 14y ago
Updated: 9/17/2019

It means that the sugar in a molecule is deoxyribose.

So, for example, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) means "the nucleic acid that has deoxyribose as the sugar component of every nucleotide in its molecule".

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∙ 17y ago

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