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carbon atoms forms the backbone of glucose molecule
The Carbon atom usually forms the backbone of polymers and quite often oxygen can do also as in polyether polyols etc.
It is. It consists of a long carbon backbone with two fluorine atoms bonded to each carbon atom.
The backbone sugar of RNA is ribose, which is a five carbon carbohydrate. When the oxygen atom from carbon number 2 is lost, it gives deoxy ribose, which is the backbone sugar for DNA.
Carbon is the correct element owever, hydrogen, oxygen, nirtogen and phosphorus are also very important.
Organic compounds can contain any element, as long as they bond on the sides of the carbon backbone of the molecule.
Methane has the molecular structure of CH4, it contains a carbon atom, thus it is a carbon compound. But it is not itself considered carbon.
First, a note: Capitalization is important in chemistry. You most likely mean CO2, which is carbon dioxide. Co2 would be a diatomic molecule of cobalt, which does not exist. CO2 is inorganic because even though it contains carbon it does not contain hydrogen.
By definition, an atom of an element is the smallest particle of the element that retains its chemical properties. The answer is "an atom of carbon." A group of 6 protons. It could have 6 neutrons and 6 electrons, but it does not necessarily have to. It could have a different amount of neutrons and hence a different weight (an isotope), or a different number of electrons and be electrically charged (an ion). These are all still considered to be carbon atoms and chemically act as carbon.
It is made of more than one atom. Carbon and Oxygen, it is therefore a compound of these two.