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Sugar phosphates
Sugar phosphates
(
sugars
that have added or substituted
phosphate
groups) are often used in biological systems to store or transfer
energy
. They also form the backbone for
DNA
and
RNA
(DNA having two sugar
molecules
, and RNA having just one).
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