The Carbon Cycle
- Carbon is the backbone element of all organic polymers, and we are ourselves known to be carbon-based life forms.
- The movement of CO2 and other carbon compounds through biological components is known as the fast carbon cycle.
- The abiotic components like rocks, soil and oceans also circulate carbon compounds taking as much as 200 million years and is known as the slow carbon cycle.
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