Biology 10th Edition by Eldra Solomon,Charles Martin,Diana Martin,Linda Berg

Exercise 1

Carbon is particularly well suited to be the backbone of organic molecules because
A) it can form both covalent bonds and ionic bonds
B) its covalent bonds are very irregularly arranged in three-dimensional space
C) its covalent bonds are the strongest chemical bonds known
D) it can bond to atoms of a large number of other elements
E) all the bonds it forms are polar