Question

All living things contain _________ in proteins, fats, and carbohydrates which can be recycled in various ways within an environment.
Question 1 options:

mercury


selenium


gold


carbon

Answer 1

All living things contain carbon

Answer 2

Its carbon

Explain:

Carbon is an essential element for life on Earth and parts of each of the cells in our bodies are made from it. The carbon cycle shows how atoms of this element can exist within different compounds at different times.

All cells - whether animal, plant or bacteria - contain carbon, because they all contain proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Plant cell walls, for example, are made of cellulose - a carbohydrate.

Carbon is passed from the atmosphere, as carbon dioxide, to living things, passed from one organism to the next in complex molecules, and returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide again. This is known as the carbon cycle.