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All living organisms contain carbon.

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What is most essential need of living organism?

Carbon is necessary for all living things.


How old is a piece of wood that has 0.7813 percent of the carbon-14 of a living organism?

40110 years


Why cant we use carbon-14 to date the rocks?

Carbon 14 is absorbed by living organisms. When they die, they stop absorbing carbon 14 and the isotope then decays. Form the time of death of the organism, the quantity of C14, as a proportion of the total carbon in the organism declines and, measuring that decrease allows the age (or time of death) of the organism to be determined.


Why are carbon compounds classified as organic compounds?

Many "organic" compounds are created by living tissue, and living things (on Earth, at any rate) always are based on carbon.


Why do living organism need carbon?

because it it stored under your skin and helps your body to create more cells

Related questions

What is the building block of all living organism?

carbon


What is most essential need of living organism?

Carbon is necessary for all living things.


Which is the fundamental element found in all living organisms?

carbon is the present in all organism.


Besides water and oxygen what makes up living things?

Carbon is another element that is primary in a living organism.


Who disagrees with carbon monoxide?

Any living organism that uses red blood cells will find carbon monoxide disagreeable.


What compounds produced by living organisms that contain the element carbon?

No living organism contains carbon on earth because "earthlings" consist of H20, but maybe on another planet. . .


Is silex strobilus living if it isn't carbon-based is it enough to have a large molecule that self replicates to be consideder a living organism?

no


What elements are the main contituents of living organism?

the main constituents of living organisms is carbon with first position then oxygen with second hydrogen with third and nitrogen with fourth, the carbon is the most abundant portion in living organism and nitrogen least quantity. The free nitrogen quantity in atmosphere is considerably more.


A compound that usually contains carbon and comes from living organism is a?

An organic compound of biochemical importance.


How old is a piece of wood that has 0.7813 percent of the carbon-14 of a living organism?

40110 years


What is Any living organism which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.?

Endagered Speices


What is any living organism which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range?

Endagered Speices