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Question
What are organic compounds?
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Solution 1
The word ‘organic’ means pertaining to life. When comparatively little chemistry was known, people thought that substances like sugar, starch, protein and acetic acid could be obtained only from living sources like plants and animals. So they called such substances organic compounds.
Solution 2
The compounds of carbon are called organic compounds.
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