Ribose

Levene identified a five-carbon sugar molecule from nucleic acid and called it ribose. Not all nucleic acid molecules possessed it, but those that did came to be known as ribose nucleic acid (RNA).
Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene United States 1909
Ribose

Levene identified a five-carbon sugar molecule from nucleic acid and called it ribose. Not all nucleic acid molecules possessed it, but those that did came to be known as ribose nucleic acid (RNA).