Which of these elements is essential to making up all organic molecules?

a. oxygen
b. hydrogen
c. carbon
d. nitrogen

The correct answer is (c) Carbon.

Organic compounds are the substance that contains carbon. The main property of carbon is catenation that make it prone to combine with the other carbon atoms. It is due to this property of carbon that a large number of organic compounds exists. The organic molecules have a very small amount of share on the surface of earth ,they are of prime importance because all the life processes are based on organic molecule. Some common examples are: Methane, Propane, Butane.

this age may represent the age of the earth's accretion, of core formation, or of the material from which the earth formed. this dating is based on evidence from radiometric age-dating of meteorite material and is consistent with the radiometric ages of the oldest-known terrestrial and lunar samples.