Match the following:
Column I | Column II |
a. Number of elements found in plants | 1. 8 |
b. Number of essential elements | 2. 100 |
c. Number of macroelements | 3. >60 |
d. Number of microelements | 4. 17 |
e. Number of non-essential elements | 5. 9 |
6. >17 |
a-3, b-4, c-5, d-1, e-6
Plants possess more than sixty elements. Out of these seventeen are essential elements and the remaining are non-essential elements. Among the 17 essential elements, nine are macroelements and the remaining eight are microelements.