Vitamin E and Alzheimer's Risk. A second study in the July issue of the Archives of Neurology shows that eating foods rich in vitamin E may help lower risks of developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Ribose and Deoxyribose. The 5-carbon sugars ribose and deoxyribose are important components of nucleotides, and are found in RNA and DNA, respectively. The sugars found in nucleic acids are pentose sugars; a pentose sugar has five carbon atoms. A combination of a base and a sugar is called a nucleoside. Ribose, found in RNA, is a normal sugar, with one oxygen atom attached to each carbon atom. Deoxyribose, found in DNA, is a modified sugar, lacking one oxygen atom (hence the name deoxy).
The name of the DNA subunit is a Nucleotide. There are three parts, there is a sugar, a base, and a phosphate group. The sugar is the pentose sugar known as deoxyribose (the D â¦ in DNA).The deoxy just means that it is missing an oxygen group compared ribose. The base is what makes up the language of DNA.There are four possible bases, adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. The phosphate and the sugar form the backbone of the DNA and are the same in every nucleotide.he sugar is the pentose sugar known as deoxyribose (the D â¦ in DNA). The deoxy just means that it is missing an oxygen group compared ribose. The base is what makes up the language of DNA.