What is Deoxyribose?
{{chembox | Name = D-deoxyribose | ImageFileL1 = D-dexoyribose chain.svg | ImageFileR1 = D-Deoxyribose.png | ImageFileL2 = D-deoxyribose_chain-3D-balls.png | ImageFileR2 = D-deoxyribose-3D-balls.png}} '''Deoxyribose''' is the sugar component of deoxyribonucleic acid or [[DNA]], having one less hydroxyl group than [[ribose]], the sugar component of ribonucleic acid or [[RNA]].Due to its various attributes it has numerous appellations ie d-2-deoxyribose, a five carbon monosaccharide, and pentose sugar.Deoxyribose is most notable for its presence in the DNA which was first track down by a Russian-born-American biochemist Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene (1869 – 1940) who discovered ribose (the sugar that forms the alternating backbone of RNA by binding to phosphate group) in 1909 and Deoxyribose in 1929. {{chem-stub}} [[Category:Monosaccharides]]