Hydrocarbons

... because it isn't on earth dosn't mean it dosn't exist. furthermore i wasn't asking wether valence 4 was the key to life or not, I was asking how hydrocarbons can combine to make life work the way it does. what about protien makes us able to move? what is atp and how does it carry energy? these ...

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so, just because carbon has 4 valence electrons it somehow makes me live? I dont get it. what about hydrocarbons makes me able to consume chemical energy and convert it into kenetic energy? (for those of you who diddn't ace physics, 'valence electrons' refer to the electrons ...

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There's a lot more to cells than just "hydrocarbons", and your question is extremely broad. Cells are made of (primarily) protein, carbohydrates and lipids, which are in turn made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, calcium, ...

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ooookkkeeeyyyy, ummm, cells are made out of protin; which is made out of hydrocarbons; which are made out of hydrogen and carbon. how exactley does the bonds between the hydrogen and carbon all of a sudden make them "alive"

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... grateful for he or her. Here is the three articles: 1.isolation and identication of a yeast strain caple of degrading four and five ring aromatic hydrocarbons. Annals of microbiology. 2006,56(2):109-112 2.Screening for yeasts able to hydrolyse arbutin in the presence of glucose or ethanol. Annals ...

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