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 species. noun speÂ·cies \ËspÄ-(Ë)shÄz, -(Ë)sÄz\. Tweet. biology: a group of animals or plants that are similar and can produce young animals or plants: a group of related animals or plants that is smaller than a genus.: a particular group of things or people that belong together or have some shared quality. plural species. species. noun speÂ·cies \ËspÄ-(Ë)shÄz, -(Ë)sÄz\. Tweet. biology: a group of animals or plants that are similar and can produce young animals or plants: a group of related animals or plants that is smaller than a genus. : a particular group of things or people that belong together or have some shared quality.