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What are pentoses? To what organic group do pentoses belong? Are nucleotides formed of only one type of pentose?

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Pentoses are carbohydrates made of five carbons. Deoxyribose is the pentose that constitutes DNA nucleotides and ribose is the pentose that is part of RNA nucleotides.

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