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The answer would most likely be sodium because carbon is a plants food, phosphorus is a nutrient in soil, hydrogen is air, but sodium does not have a place in a plant:)
The advantage that is conferred to algae and plants that have sporopollenin is that they have reproductive cells that are more resistant to desiccation. Remember that a sporopollenin is a polymer that is inert and makes up the outer layer of pollen grains and spores. Sporopollenin<span> is also found in the cell walls of several taxa of green </span>alga<span>, including Phycopeltis </span>