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All living organism contain carbon, but not all things that contain carbon are living. Why is that?

April 26, 2017Biology carbon contain Living organism

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All living organism contain carbon, but not all things that contain carbon are living. Why is that?

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Actually, all living things on this planet contain carbon. Life on other worlds could be based on silicon. Carbon is only one element in the composition of living things. Complex chemical reactions are necessary between a variety of elements before the components of life are present.