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Ribulose vs Deoxyribose - What's the difference?

ribulose | deoxyribose |

As nouns the difference between ribulose and deoxyribose

is that ribulose is (organic compound|carbohydrate) a ketopentose whose phosphate derivatives participate in photosynthesis while deoxyribose is (carbohydrate) a derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-oh) is reduced to a hydrogen (h); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that comprise the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or dna.

ribulose

English

Noun

(wikipedia ribulose) (-)
  • (organic compound, carbohydrate) a ketopentose whose phosphate derivatives participate in photosynthesis

    • Anagrams

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    deoxyribose

    English

    (wikipedia deoxyribose)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (carbohydrate) A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that comprise the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

    • Alternative forms

    * desoxyribose