inorganic vs organic?

Question

how to tell differance??
here a couple of my questions

DNA/starch/KOH/Sodium chloride/skin/glucose/vegetable oil/hair

i also need to know if they are a salt/acid/base/protein/lipid/nucleic acid/or carbohydrate

ok sorry about that they are

DNA, starch, KOH
Sodium chloride, skin
glucose, vegetable oil
RNA, sucrose
Butter, fingernails
H2SO4, HNO3
gelatin, molasses
vinegar, hair
and i need to know if they are
organic or inorganic
and if they are a
salt, acid, base, protein,
lipid, nucleic acid,
or carbohydrate

Answer 1

Can't quite read it, but in essence the ones with Carbon (C) in it are organic, the ones without are inorganic. Also, things that are alive are organic.

Salt = NaCl inorganic
H16C16N2O2 = organic

DNA = living, breathing

Answer 2

Is Dna Organic Or Inorganic

Answer 3

Can you retype that list will spaces between the items? They're not all showing up. But for now, I'll help you with the ones I can see :)

Organic compounds are basically compounds that contain carbon. So from your list, the organic compouds are:
DNA (pretty important to living things)
starch (made my living organisms to store food)
glucose (the main food source for living organisms)
vegetable oil (comes from vegetables, hence the name)

Skin and hair are both made up of many different organic compounds. Those ones fall under the organic part but not the compound part. So they go in the organic catagory on your homework, but I didn't want to include them on that list I just wrote because of how I'd phrased it.

KOH and sodium chloride are both inorganic compounds even though they're found in small quantities in living organisms.

As for the next one...

DNA stands for deoxyribose nucleic acid, so it's a nucleic acid. A nucleic acid is basically something that is consists of a sequence of nitrogonous bases connected to a really long carbon-based molecule, and provides information for the cell. That's pretty much just DNA and RNA.

Glucose is a carbohydrate. It's formula is C6H12O6. Carbohydrates will always have a forumla in the form CxHyOz. So glucose is a carbohydrate.

Starch is basically a whole bunch of glucose molecules stuck together, so it's also a carbohydrate.

Sodium chloride is table salt, so, of course, it's a salt. It's made up of Na+ and Cl- ions that are held together by electrostatic attraction rather than molecular bonding. That's basically the definition of a salt, so NaCl is a salt.

KOH is make up of K+ and OH-. So it's two ions stuck together, meaning it's a salt. It's also a base because of the OH-. And that's a really over-simplified explanation of why it's a base, but I'm guessing you don't really want me to go into the acid-base chemistry here (if I'm wrong about that, I'd be happy to explain it further - just email me).

Vegetable oil is a lipid. Lipid is just a fancy word for fat, and oils are a type of fat. Specifically, they're unsaturated triglycerides, which are made of a three-carbon molecule called glycerine with three carbon chains coming off them. The unsaturated part just means there are some double bonds in the carbon chains.

Hair isn't really a single compound, but it's mainly proteins. I'm not sure how to explain that one - it just is. Proteins are things that are made by cells. Cells in your hair follicles excrete proteins that form most of your hair. But I'm not sure how helpful that really is.

Skin is made up of cells. I can't put it into one of those catagories of compounds. That's just too weird. Skin contains pretty much all of those types of compounds you listed.

Most of that I could have explained in a lot more detail but I didn't want to bore you (plus I have to go to class soon), so if you want more explanation on any of that you're welcome to email me and I'll probably be able to tell you more about it.

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And now for the ones that you added while I was typing that...

RNA I mentioned earlier is a nucleic acid.

Sucrose is a sugar. Sugars are carbohydrates. And carbohydrates are organic.

Butter you probably know is mainly saturated fat. So it's mainly lipids, and is organic (in the chemical sense, but you can buy "organic" butter, so it stands to reason that other butter must not be organic - silly food people coopting chemical terms and giving them different meanings).

Fingernails are protein. Carotein I think it is, but don't quote me on that. Proteins are organic.

H2SO4 is the chemical formula for sulfuric acid, which, as the name suggests, is an acid. It's a strong acid, in fact (note that "strong acid" is a specific chemcial term that describes approximately eight acids that dissociate completely in water - it's not nearly as qualitative as the name would suggest). There's no carbon, so it's inorganic.

HNO3 is an acid. That H pops off to become an H+, which is what makes things acidic. No carbon so it's not organic.

I really have very little idea what's actually in gelatin, but my guess would be that it's either carbohydrates or proteins, or a mix of the two. It's definitely organic, though.

Molasses is mainly sugar. Sugars are carbohydrates, and are organic.

Vinegar is an organic acid. I don't remember the specific forumla, but I know it has carbon in it. And it's an acid because it does that cool bubbly thing when you mix it with baking soda. That cool bubbly thing is the result of a neutralization reaction, which is what happens when you mix an acid and a base, and baking soda is a base.

Answer 4

if it contains carbon it is organic, if it doesn't it is inorganic.

DNA is an nucleic acid (it is made up of nucleotides bonded together)
starch carbohydrate
KOH is a base
Sodium Cloride is a salt
Glucose is an acid
Vegetables are starches
oil is a lipid
hair is a protein

DNA organic
STarch organic
KOH inorganic
Sodium Chloride Inorganic
Skin protein and organic
glucose organic
vegetable organic
oil organic
hair organic

Dna is organic because it is made partially out of sugars, which of course are made out of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. It is an acid because it has acid in the name lol.

Starch is organic because it is made of glucose, which is a sugar. It is a type of carbohydrate.

KOH is inorganic because it obvioulsy contains no carbon. It is basic because it contains an hydroxide ion (OH-) which makes solutions basic.

Sodium Chloride is obviously inorganic because it contains no carbon (NaCl)
It is a salt commonly know as table salt.

Skin is a protein and is organic because proteins are made up of amino acids which contain a carboxyl group (COOH), which obviously contains carbon. It is a protein because it is lol.

Glucose is organic because it is a sugar and is made up of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen. Glucose contains a carboxyl group like all sugars, which makes things acidic.

Vegetables are organic, because.... theyy are... I'm not totally sure, but I do believe they are made up of sugars also. They are carbohydrates

Oil is organic because it is made up of many chains of carbon bonded to hydrogen, which makes it nonpolar (this is why it doesn't mix with water)

Hair is organix because it is a protein... I explained it earlier on.


I hope this helps you.

Answer 5

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inorganic vs organic?
how to tell differance??
here a couple of my questions

DNA/starch/KOH/Sodium chloride/skin/glucose/vegetable oil/hair

i also need to know if they are a salt/acid/base/protein/lipid/nucleic acid/or carbohydrate

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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in all categories, there's both.

Answer 8

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