noun
- Plural of deoxyribose; five-carbon sugars that lack one oxygen atom compared to ribose, found as a component of DNA.
Usage: technical; biochemistry
Examples
- Deoxyriboses are essential components of the DNA molecule.
- The structure of deoxyriboses differs from riboses by the absence of one oxygen atom.
- In molecular biology, deoxyriboses form the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA strands.
- Scientists study deoxyriboses to understand the chemical composition of genetic material.