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Plants need bacteria in order to take up and use which element?
Carbon
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Hydrogen 


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The answer is nitrogen. Plants cannot use atmospheric nitrogen directly. Nitrogen from the air must be converted into the different form so plants can absorb it. Thus plants need nitrogen-fixing bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium, which is available for plants to absorb it.