Carbon is the second most abundant element in the human body, and makes up about 18 percent of your total weight. For a person weighing 170, 35 pounds of that weight is from the element carbon. Carbon forms the backbone of DNA, which present in most of the cells present in the human body.
Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. A genus (/ËdÊiËnÉs/, pl. genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. The composition of a genus is determined by a taxonomist.
1 Taxon (plural = taxa) is a generic term used to describe a group of organisms that descended from a common ancestor. 2  Whenever a scientific name has a gender (masculine or feminine), both genus and species must have the same gender. 3  1.4  A taxon has only one correct name. Check out some entertaining scientific names. 2  Taxon (plural = taxa) is a generic term used to describe a group of organisms that descended from a common ancestor. 3  Whenever a scientific name has a gender (masculine or feminine), both genus and species must have the same gender.