Detour: Directionality of DNA Strands
Discover what the sugar component of a nucleotide is and how it’s categorized.
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The sugar component of a nucleotide has a ring of five carbon atoms, which are labeled as 1′, 2′, 3′, 4′, and 5′ in the figure given below (left). The 5′ atom is joined onto ...