WHY IS CARBON ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE?
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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!
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Carbon is the basic building block of life . This is the reason carbon dating is effective, all living organisms contain carbon. Also, carbon is so important to life because virtually all molecules in the body contain carbon. ... Carbon can bond to four other groups around it , and to other carbon molecules.
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