If You Trace Back the History of a Carbon Atom

Multiple Choice

If you trace back the history of a carbon atom in your little finger through all of cosmic history, where did this atom most likely originate?

A) it was made in the big bang
B) it was fused from hydrogen atoms during the main-sequence stage of a star's life long before the Sun existed
C) it was made from smaller nuclei in the hot core of the Earth when our planet first formed
D) it was fused from 3 helium nuclei in the core of a red giant star long before the Sun existed
E) it came from Bayonne, New Jersey (where a lot of carbon-rich soot originates)