SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Because organisms store 90% of ATP in their muscles
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Because organisms store 10% of ATP in their muscles
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Because organisms use 90% of the energy through life processes
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Because organisms use 10% of energy through life processes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Organism uses up to 90% of its food energy for its life processes. Only about 10% of energy goes into new body cells and will be available to the next animal when it gets eaten. This loss of energy at each trophic level can be shown by an energy pyramid.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reason for this is that only around 10 per cent of the energy is passed on to the next trophic level. The rest of the energy passes out of the food chain in a number of ways: it is released as heat energy during respiration. it is used for life processes (eg movement)
Detailed explanation-3: -Energy decreases as it moves up trophic levels because energy is lost as metabolic heat when the organisms from one trophic level are consumed by organisms from the next level.
Detailed explanation-4: -When green plants are consumed by the herbivores (primary consumers) most of the energy is liberated as heat to the environment, some amount goes into digestion and some energy used for growth and reproduction. Only 10% of the food eaten is turned into its own body and made available for the next level of consumers.
Detailed explanation-5: -The ten percent rule states that each trophic level can only give 10% of its energy to the next level. The other 90% is used to live, grow, reproduce and is lost to the environment as heat. All energy pyramids start with energy from the Sun which is transferred to the first trophic level of producers.