What qualifies somethins a "orgnaic vs. Inorganic"

[ej37]

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For example, how do you know molecules are "inorganic" or "organic"...

HCl was said to be an inorganic acid in my Kaplan class today (because it has no carbon) however is this the only requirement for determining if it is organic or not? I remember learning something different in biochem...

Thanks, all.

 

[engineeredout]

Organic = hydrogen + carbon, but mainly carbon is the most important.

Thats it.

 

[DrMattOglesby]

actually i have heard of other compounds lacking carbon getting labeled as organic...but again, sounds out of reach for the purposes of the MCAT.

 

[ej37]

actually i have heard of other compounds lacking carbon getting labeled as organic...but again, sounds out of reach for the purposes of the MCAT.

Yeah... I had to memorize a pretty complicated set of rules for my Biochem class... which of course I don't remember. So for the MCAT, Carbon + Hydrogen = organic?

 

[sleepy425]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! organic means that your food is grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that it was processed without ionizing radiation or food additives. In addition, organic livestock are reared without the use of antibiotics and growth hormones.

inorganic refers to the poison the big farmers want you to force down your throat.

man, if you didn't know that, idk what you're gonna do on the mcat. and all this stuff about hydrogen and carbon, idk where you get this stuff, i mean, geeez, no respect for nature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_additive

 

[HawkeyePostOp]

lol yeah that's it. Organic is pretty much whatever your O-chem book decides to cover, but it's mostly biologically related chemicals (things with C,H,N,O,P,S etc) or chemicals used in processing things that were formerly or will be biological.