Types
Ribose and Deoxyribose
Deoxyribose replaces the 2'-hydroxyl group found in RNA with a hydrogen
Numbering of carbons
Both ribose and deoxyribose are pentose sugars
Carbons are numbered 1' - 5'
These are primed numbers so as not to confuse them with the ordinary numbers used to label the nitrogenous bases
1' carbon is bound to the base
3' carbon is bound to phosphate of adjacent nucleotide
5' carbon is bound to phosphate in its nucleotide