Important elements in biology

Answer 1

There are many different chemicals in a cell to offer different reactions. The chemicals can easily be remembered by memorizing this acronym; CHNOPS. It stands for carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.

Answer 2

We are made mainly of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen - these make up most structures and make sugars and starches, the energy molecules. Then you need nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, to make proteins - your muscles, and also all the enzymes and hormones that keep your body working. Lots of minerals are needed too like iron for your haemoglobin (red blood cells), calcium for your teeth and bones. Sodium and potassium are important for sending messages along nerves. Plants photosynthesise using carbon dioxide from the air and water from the soil to make their own food; they store food up as starch in potatoes, grains, leaves, and put sugar into fruits to make them appeal to the animals that will distribute the seeds. Plants use minerals from the soil to manufacture whatever they need in their own structure. So all these elements are available to us when we eat plants.

Answer 3

Elements are the same in chemistry or Biology. They are serially listed in the Periodic Table. Biochemical such as carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids and lipids are all derived from the element C, H, N, O and micro nutrient P, S.

Answer 4

What chemical elements are used in biology?

Answer 5

Biochemistry involves many elements, but the main ones you will encounter are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, which can combine in millions of different ways.

Answer 6

reactions.