Question

we know that in autotrophic nutrition, organism synthesize their own food from inorganic substances like carbon di oxide and water,but what is the defination fororganic material ?

Answer 1

The word organic stands for something related to the living world.

So, the compounds obtained from living organisms are called organic compounds whileinorganic compounds are considered to be not of biological but of mineral origin.The organic compounds are studied under a separate branch of chemistry known as organic chemistry. All organic compounds must have elements carbon and hydrogen.

Along with carbon and hydrogen, organic compounds can also have elements nitrogen, oxygen, halogens, sulphur, phosphorus etc.