Question

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. a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4, e-5
• B. a-5, b-4, c-3, d-2, e-1
• C. a-3, b-4, c-1, d-5, e-6
• D. a-3, b-4, c-5, d-1, e-6

Answer 1

The correct option is D

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.