NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A food chain consists of producers, consumers as well as decomposers . In food chain Plants are the producers as they prepare their own food. Animals are the consumers, as they feed upon the plants. Bacteria and fungi are the decomposers, as they feed on the dead, decay and other remaining of living organisms.

Detailed explanation-2: -group of organisms linked in order of the food they eat, from producers to consumers, and from prey, predators, scavengers, and decomposers.

Detailed explanation-3: -A producer is an organism which produces its own food through photosynthesis. 3. A consumer is an organism which does not make its own food but must get its energy from eating a plant or animal.

Detailed explanation-4: -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).

Detailed explanation-5: -In the food chain, energy is transferred from one living organism through another in the form of food. There are primary producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and decomposers-all part of the food chain.