Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sugar, C5H10O4, that is a constituent of DNA.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a pentose (C5H10O4) in which one of the hydroxyl groups of ribose has been replaced by a hydrogen. In deoxyribonucleic acids, the deoxyribose is
D-2-deoxyribose , in which the hydroxyl at the 2 position of ribose is the one which is replaced by hydrogen.
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- noun biochemistry A
derivative of thepentose sugar ribose in which the 2'hydroxyl (-OH ) is reduced to ahydrogen (H ); it is aconstituent of thenucleotides that comprise thebiopolymer ,deoxyribonucleic acid , orDNA .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids
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Examples
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Although U-14C cytidine did not label the deoxyribose of E. coli DNA, I found the deoxycytidine of DNA of rat organs to be almost uniformly labeled.
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Components of the primary genetic material in our cells, called deoxyribose nucleic acid
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Nucleotides consist of a sugar molecule, like ribose or deoxyribose, joined to a base at one end and a phosphate group at the other.
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Nucleotides consist of a sugar molecule, like ribose or deoxyribose, joined to a base at one end and a phosphate group at the other.
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For example, deoxyribose is part of DNA (the genetic material of chromosomes) and ribose is part of RNA (which regulates protein synthesis).
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The sugar in DNA is deoxyribose while the bases are adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine.
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Therefore by both criteria it appeared certain that the 14C reached the deoxyribose directly from the cytidine.
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The opening sentence of his paper, written with his colleague Jim Watson and published in Nature that year, put it more modestly: "We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid."
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The opening sentence of his paper, written with his colleague Jim Watson and published in Nature that year, put it more modestly: "We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid."
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The opening sentence of his paper, written with his colleague Jim Watson and published in Nature that year, put it more modestly: "We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid."
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