
Extract the answer to the question from the following context.
Question: What sort of carbon is the 2'-deoxyribose nucleotide subunit?
Context: The vast majority of living organisms encode their genes in long strands of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). DNA consists of a chain made from four types of nucleotide subunits, each composed of: a five-carbon sugar (2'-deoxyribose), a phosphate group, and one of the four bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.:2.1

sugar
