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Biomolecules

Question
CBSEENBI11003257

Micro-nutrients are

  • less important in nutrition than macronutrients

  • as important in nutrition as macro-nutrients

  • may be omitted from culture media without any detrimental effect on the plant

  • called micro because they play only minor role in nutrition

Solution

B.

as important in nutrition as macro-nutrients

Micro-nutrients are the minerals/elements which are required in less amount by the plants and thus are present in less quantity in the plants but these are as important as the macro-nutrients. Examples of micro-nutrients iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), molybdenum (Mo), boron (B) and chlorine (Cl).