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Essential elements for plants are...

Essential elements for plants are

A

Life cycle incomplete without it

B

Non replaceable

C

Metabolism (necessary for it)

D

All above

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D
An element is essential if, being deficient the plant is unable to complete the reproductive or vegetative stage of its life cycle.
Elements are irreplaceable. For e.g. sodium cannot be essential simply because it can substitute for some mode of action of potassium in plant nutrition.
Elements like molybdenum are essential for maintaining metabolism in plants.
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