What is meant by an alkyl group?

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An alkane is made up of hydrogen and carbon atoms that are arranged in a tree structure with a single Carbon-Carbon $(C - C)$ bond.
An alkyl group is formed by removing a Hydrogen atom in an alkane molecule.
An alkyl group is named by replacing -ane in the alkane molecule with the suffix -yl.
Some of the examples of alkyl groups are
Methyl $(- {CH}_{3})$ , Ethyl $(- {CH}_{2} {CH}_{3})$ , etc.

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