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Answer 1 · 2017-07-02T02:21:49

to be considered organic carbon must be present.

Organic compounds were once thought to only be present in living things. hence the name organic from organisms.

Urea was the first organic compound to be synthesized outside of living things. Now organic compounds refer to any compound containing carbon.

Carbon is most commonly bonded to Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen.

$CH_4$ methane is considered to be organic

$CO_2$ Carbon dioxide is considered to be organic

$C_2H_5OH$ ethyl alcohol is considered to be organic

$NH_2CO_2H$ an amino acid is consider to be organic.

An organic compound must have Carbon and be joined to one or more of the other elements.