The sugar found in DNA is deoxyribose. Deoxyribose is a five-carbon sugar that is a crucial component of nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA. It is a derivative of ribose, the sugar found in RNA, differing by the absence of an oxygen atom on the second carbon.
Deoxyribose forms the backbone of the DNA molecule, linking to phosphate groups and nitrogenous bases to create the double helix structure.
