What are the pentoses, Biology

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Q. What are the pentoses? To what organic group do the pentoses belong? Are nucleotides formed of only one kind of pentose?

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


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