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Significance of Carbon

Summary:

Carbon is the main element in organic compounds, so carbon is essential to life on Earth.
There are four major types of organic compounds: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.

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How does carbon dioxide support life?

Is carbon necessary for living organisms to make organic compounds?

How do carbon atoms form many organic compounds?

What are some of the reasons that organisms need carbon?

Where can you find carbon in an ecosystem?

When and where was carbon identified?

If something at the store is classified as non-organic, does that mean that a non-organic compound is added?

Why isn't hydrogen listed as the most common element in the human body, rather than oxygen?

Why is carbon essential for life on Earth?