pentose

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Meaning

1. noun A sugar or saccharide containing five carbon atoms.

   Ribose, found in RNA, is a common pentose.

Similar words

pentaose hexose monopentose decose tetrose octose fucopentaose ketose pentasaccharide heptose

Often followed by

phosphate sugar sugars cycle shunt and nucleic pathway is

Word family

pentoses