This article or section is incompleteThis page is marked as lacking essential detail, and needs attention. Information regarding expansion requirements may be found on the article's talk page. Feel free to edit this page to assist with this expansion.
A carbon-based lifeform was a life form, typically with a nervous system, whose critical functions fundamentally depended upon carbon atoms. Metabolism, growth, and genetic information all required carbon-based molecules.
Humans, Klingons, Romulans and most other species in the Milky Way Galaxy were carbon-based lifeforms. Fruits and vegetables, as well as animal life, were carbon-based.
There were also other forms of life that were not carbon-based, such as photonic lifeforms or silicon-based lifeforms.