Question: 1. what is the difference between a ribonucleotide and a deoxyribonucleotide?
Answer: What is the difference between a ribonucleotide and a deoxyribonucleotide? Ribonucleotides have a hydrogen atom on the 1 carbon of their sugar subunit. Ribonucleotides contain a phosphate group. ... Ribonucleotides contain a sugar with five carbon atoms.