Long answer type questions
Name the elements that make up most of a plants body. What are essential mineral nutrients and beneficial mineral nutrients?

A plant's body is mostly made up of minerals. Interactions involving weathering of rock minerals, decaying organic matter, animals, and microbes form inorganic minerals in the soil. Roots absorb these mineral nutrients from the soil through the meristematic root tips.

There are actually 20 mineral elements namely,

• Carbon (C)

• Hydrogen (H)

• Oxygen (O)

• Nitrogen (N)

• Phosphorus (P)

• Potassium (K)

• Calcium (Ca)

• Magnesium (Mg)

• Sulfur (S)

•  Boron (B)

• Chlorine (Cl)

• Copper (Cu)

• Iron (Fe)

• Manganese (Mn)

• Sodium (Na)

• Zinc (Zn)

• Molybdenum (Mo) 

• Nickel (Ni)

• Silicon (Si) 

• Cobalt (Co)