Co operative Supervisor & Environment Supervisor The primary difference between the sugars in DNA and RNA is the presence of a hydroxyl group at the 2' carbon in ribose (RNA) and only a hydrogen atom in 2'-deoxyribose (DNA).
The Pentose sugar present in DNA is - $\alpha - \text{D} - 2 - \text{deoxyribose}$ - $\beta - \text{D} - 2 - \text{deoxyribose}$ - $\alpha - \text{D} - \text{ribose}$ - $\beta - \text{D} - \text{ribose}$
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