What sugar is found in DNA?

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Dec 1, 2015

Deoxyribose.

Explanation:

The sugar found in DNA is a 5-carbon molecule called deoxyribose. The name DNA is short for deoxyribonucleic acid, with the deoxyribo telling you which sugar is found in the backbone of DNA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA

The backbone of DNA is made of alternating units of deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group (#PO_4#).

To learn more about the structure of DNA, check out this video...

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