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For a molecule to be considered organic, what elements must be present

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Oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, hydrogen atoms ...
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Carbon and hydrogen.

The simplest group of organic molecules are the alkanes which have only these 2 elements. Eg methane, CH4.

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