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"Organic" in this context just means carbon chemistry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry
by dcminter 15y ago
"Organic" in this context just means carbon chemistry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry
- possibilistic 15y agoChemist here. This is absolutely the correct response. Organic does not imply biological in origin or nature whatsoever. The laws that govern organic chemistry are constant throughout the universe -- I'm not an astrochemist, but there is likely a nontrivial amount of very interesting organic chemistry happening in our solar system. I believe we've detected the presence of amino acids, for instance, which are the product of both organic (and in our case) biochemical reactions.