Komposisi tubuh manusia
Komposisi tubuh dapat dianalisis dalam hal jenis molekulnya, misalnya, air, protein, jaringan ikat, lemak (atau lipida), hidroksilapatit (dalam tulang), karbohidrat (seperti glikogen dan glukosa) dan DNA. Sesuai jenis jaringannya, tubuh dapat dianalisis menjadi air, lemak, otot, tulang, dll. Menurut jenis selnya, tubuh mengandung ratusan jenis sel, tetapi tercatat jumlah sel paling banyak yang dikandung dalam tubuh manusia (meski bukan massa sel terbesar) bukan sel manusia, tetapi bakteri yang berada dalam saluran pencernaan manusia normal.
Unsur kimia
The composition of the human body, by contrast, more closely follows the composition of seawater—save that the human body has additional stores of carbon and nitrogen necessary to form the proteins and nucleic acids, together with phosphorus in the nucleic acids and energy transfer molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) that occurs in the cells of all living organisms. Certain kinds of organisms require particular additional elements, for example the magnesium in chlorophyll in green plants, the calcium in mollusc shells, or the iron in the hemoglobin in vertebrate animals' red blood cells.