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Deoxyribose
Structurally simple carbohydrate. Deoxyribose is an important part of deoxyribonucleic acid.
By convention, the carbon atoms are numbered with primes ('). In nucleotides, and nucleic acids, the 5' carbon is linked to the phosphate, and the 1' carbon to the base.
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