Monday, 22 April 2013

Pentose Sugars in living cells

In Living cell flasum There are two types of pentose sugars found in nucleic acids. This difference is reflected in their names deoxyribonucleic acid indicates the presence of deoxyribose,  while ribonucleic acid indicates the presence of ribose

Then In the graphic on the left, the structures of both ribose and deoxyribose are shown. Note the red  “ OH “on one and the red  “ H ” on the other are the only differences. The alpha and beta designations are interchangeable and are not a significant difference between the two

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