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Depending on the molecule, the "sugar" may change, but a moiety is like a subdivision of a functional group. In DNA we have nitrogenous base held by a sugar phosphate backbone. "Sugar moiety" refers to the deoxyribose sugar that is part of the DNA backbone.

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