The Importance Of The Carbon Cycle

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INTRODUCTION:
Carbon is one of the elements present in the periodic table, represented by a C, it is one of the elements that can combine with other elements to make molecules and it is also the fourth most abundant. On earth, carbon circulates through the land, ocean, and atmosphere, making what's referred to as the "Carbon Cycle. ", and in a non-living environment or things, like rocks, coal, petroleum, dead organic matter and etc., carbon exist, but as carbon dioxide (CO2).
Atmosphere is composed by a lot of gases, including carbon dioxide and methane. Carbon dioxide is an important gas in atmosphere, which constitute about 0.04% of the atmosphere. CO2, so is important because is one the gas/elements that compose the atmosphere, but it …show more content…

The photosynthetic beings incorporate atmospheric carbon dioxide, turning it into organic molecules. The most important steps of the carbon cycle are:
The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by plants and converted into sugar by photosynthesis; animals eat plants and by breaking down sugars and releasing carbon into the atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the decomposing of the organisms, such as plants and animals, carbon returning to the environment; carbon is also exchanged between the oceans and the atmosphere. This happens in both directions in the interaction between air and …show more content…

The DNA and RNA molecules, which carries the genetic code, they are the two types of genetic codes, but RNA is often found in virus and bacteria cells, and the DNA into plants and animals. Both of them have the same structure that is, the helix. The helix needs some element to fit/fix on the helix system, and the only one that fits/fixes into that kind of system is the carbon. This is why the carbon is present in many of the process, because the carbon has certain characteristics that makes it different from other chemical elements, some of the characteristics of this element are that carbon is tetravalent which means that the atomic number of carbon is 6 and its electronic configuration has two electrons in the K shell and four electrons in the layer L. thereby having four electrons in its last electron shell. The carbon shares the electrons with four other atoms, so that they complete the octet, reaching a stable configuration. Are formed, thereby four covalent bonds. Was recognized in 1858, by Kekule that carbon in a tetravalent

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