organic compounds

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1. The compounds containing carbon that are typically found in living systems.

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Generally, anything made from living systems, such as cloth, fuels, or wood, is said to be organic. Organic foods are grown with no fertilizer except the organic compounds found naturally in plants and animals.

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"What kinds of organic compounds might they be leaking out of their cells that could be feeding the rest of the food web with?"

From Science Daily

Some sites in these stages have been found to emit volatile organic compounds and other harmful pollutants.

From Science Daily

He continued, "The findings demonstrate that the interplay among inorganic and organic compounds played crucial roles in Earth's environmental changes, deepening our understanding of the evolution of Earth's oxygen and hence the life on it."

From Science Daily

It finds volatile organic compounds in the breath, detectable in cancer patients even at the early stages of disease, it said.

From BBC

The scent of trees and soil is full of organic compounds released by plants and "when you breathe them in, some molecules pass into the bloodstream."

From BBC