In its excited state a carbon atom can form bonds with four other atoms, which allows it to form long and complex molecules that are essential to life as we know it. Carbon is also very common in Earth's crust. Silicon has similar properties and could theoretically perform the same functions, but so far there is no evidence of that happening anywhere in the universe.
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