Functional groups

The building blocks of organic compounds are atoms. Moreover, organic compounds are carbon-based, and these carbon atoms behave as the chains or the backbones of the entire compound, allowing the addition of many atoms. In fact, some organic compounds can be comprised of immense quantities of atoms like proteins, which might contain even thousands of …

Carbon atoms: The framework of biological molecules

Reading about biochemistry, organic chemistry, or any other similar discipline will necessarily include the discussion of carbon-based compounds. Carbon atoms, as stated by Mason et al. (2014), are the framework of biological molecules. WHAT IS A CARBON ATOM? Challoner and Jackson 2017 Carbon is an element that can be found in the periodic table (group …