NUTRITION
CARBOHYDRATES
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Question
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Carbon is the most common element on Earth.
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Carbon can form a wide variety of molecules.
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Many carbon isotopes are radioactive
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Many carbon allotropes occur in nature.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why is carbon so basic to life? The reason is carbon’s ability to form stable bonds with many elements, including itself. This property allows carbon to form a huge variety of very large and complex molecules. In fact, there are nearly 10 million carbon-based compounds in living things!
Detailed explanation-2: -Carbon is versatile because it can form single, double, and triple bonds. It can also form chains, branched chains, and rings when connected to other carbon atoms.
Detailed explanation-3: -You should know that carbon due to its capability of having variable oxidation states or coordination numbers makes carbon one of the few elements to have multiple numbers of allotropic forms. Carbon’s ability to catenate is another contributing factor. Thus, it leads to the formation of various allotropes of carbon.