HUMAN NUTRITION

NUTRITION

NUTRITION ENERGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is a food web?
A
A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains.
B
An organism that can make its own food using the sun’s energy through the process of photosynthesis.
C
An animal that feeds only on other animals for energy.
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem. Each organism in an ecosystem occupies a specific trophic level or position in the food chain or web. Producers, who make their own food using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, make up the bottom of the trophic pyramid.

Detailed explanation-2: -A food web is a network of food chains which are interconnected to each other. In a food chain, each member is eaten by the other in a particular sequence. The producers, consumers and the decomposers of the various food chains are considered as the part of the food web.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are two types of food chains: the grazing food chain, beginning with autotrophs, and the detrital food chain, beginning with dead organic matter (Smith & Smith 2009).

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