What property of carbon makes it essential for organic life?

Answer: Carbon is one of the most important chemical, non-metallic element that is considered to be the fundamental unit, making up the organic life. Carbon is present in almost all the living beings existing on earth.

Carbon plays a significant role in the carbon cycle. It transfers from plants to the animals or organisms as one consumes the plants, vegetables that are around us and further released into the atmosphere from the bodies of the living creatures during exhalation. This continuous transformation of carbon from one place to another is regarded as the carbon cycle.

It is abundant and can easily react with various elements.