What are the four groups of organic compounds?

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anonymous · Answer

Amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and... DNA? The last part is composed of phosphate, nitrogen, and sugar groups.

anonymous · Answer

Hmm...I would have said nucleotides, but I suppose DNA works too.

anonymous · Answer

Nucleotide is more accurate.

anonymous · Answer

Ah, thanks! :)

anonymous · Answer

@allythig 
organic compounds (key functional groups) are alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, and carboxylic acids.
@badreferences was naming macronutrients and then through in DNA for whatever reason.

anonymous · Answer

@CliffSedge You're probably right, but I can quote my college bio textbook where it calls these macronutrients "organic compounds".

anonymous · Answer

Macronutrients are examples of organic compounds, but they do not name the groups of organic compounds.
You could have also named methane, acetylene, benzene, etc. as examples, but those are also not groups.

anonymous · Answer

That sounds good to me.