You should recognize our old CHON friends here.

You also should notice that many of these bonds are C-H (non-polar) bonds, but many are not.

You could also, if you really wanted to, guess which bonds shown here are more ionic and more covalent.

Campbell and Reece

In all cases, notice that carbon is the backbone of all these various molecular chains.

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