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Adenosine This diagram shows
Adenine a Nucleotide structure

with adenine (A) as
its base.

This is called
adenosine

monophosphate
or adenosine-
5'-Phosphate.

Phosphate Deoxyribose, ribose...
ooohh, I'm getting
Adenosine Monophosphate really confused.

If the pentose in this
nucleotide was deoxyribose

instead of ribose, then we
would have deoxyadenosine

monophosphate.

Saccharide
(Pentose)

Ribose or
Deoxyribose

for DNA, deoxyribose is For now, just
used for the pentose, and remember that
deoxyribose is used in
for RNA, ribose is used. DNA and ribose is used
in RNA. We'll go into
more detail later.

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