Summarize where carbon is found on earth and how much of it is in the human body

Carbon is the basic building block to most cells in the body.

It helps with cellular respiration where your body releases energy stored in glucose and the glucose compound is full of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.

Carbon makes up 18% of the human body.

Sugars in the body like glucose hold carbon elements.

allowed for the prediction of the properties of missing elements.

photosynthesis makes the glucose that is used in cellular respiration to make atp. the glucose is then turned back into carbon dioxide, which is used in photosynthesis. while water is broken down to form oxygen during photosynthesis, in cellular respiration oxygen is combined with hydrogen to form water.