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Ribose
Structurally simple 5-carbon ring carbohydrate. Ribose is an important part of ribonucleic 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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