FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
MICROORGANISMS IN FOOD
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Select the organisms that are consumers.
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tomato plant
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earth worm
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grass
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dung beetle
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sunflower
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: –A beetle that feeds on nectar (producer) is a primary consumer. Hence, The correct answer is option (D).
Detailed explanation-2: -Living things that have to hunt, gather and eat their food are called consumers. Consumers have to eat to gain energy or they will die. There are four types of consumers: omnivores, carnivores, herbivores and decomposers.
Detailed explanation-3: -For example, a grasshopper living in the Everglades is a primary consumer. Some other examples of primary consumers are white-tailed deer that forage on prairie grasses, and zooplankton that eat microscopic algae in the water. Next are the secondary consumers, which eat primary consumers.
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