Deoxyribonucleoside
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A deoxyribonucleoside is a type of nucleoside
Nucleoside
Nucleosides are glycosylamines consisting of a nucleobase bound to a ribose or deoxyribose sugar via a beta-glycosidic linkage...

 including deoxyribose
Deoxyribose
Deoxyribose, more, precisely 2-deoxyribose, is a monosaccharide with idealized formula H---3-H. Its name indicates that it is a deoxy sugar, meaning that it is derived from the sugar ribose by loss of an oxygen atom...

 as a component.

An example is deoxycytidine
Deoxycytidine
Deoxycytidine is a deoxyribonucleoside. It is like cytidine, but with one oxygen atom removed....

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