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noun
A naturally occurring pentose sugar, which is a component of the nucleosides and nucleotides that constitute the nucleic acid biopolymer, RNA. It is also found in riboflavin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar
History
From German Ribose, formed from Ribonsäure, the first element of which comes from a rearrangement of English arabinose.
Across languages
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