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Which of the following is an example of an aldopentose? |
Fructose D-Ribose Glyceraldehyde Erythrose |
D-Ribose |
Ribose is an aldopentose (a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms) that, in its open chain form, has an aldehyde functional group at one end. In the conventional numbering scheme for monosaccharides, the carbon atoms are numbered from C1' (in the aldehyde group) to C5'. |