It is probably impossible to build this structure with a ribose sugar in place of the deoxyribose, as the extra oxygen atom would make too close a van der Waals contact. The previously published X ...

Where ribose has a hydroxyl (OH) group attached to the second carbon in the ring, deoxyribose has only a hydrogen atom. The chemical formula for ribose is C₅H₁₀O₅, while the chemical ...

Unlike DNA, RNA is usually single-stranded. Additionally, RNA contains ribose sugars rather than deoxyribose sugars, which makes RNA more unstable and more prone to degradation. RNA is synthesized ...