NEET BIOLOGY

ECOLOGY

ECOSYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What type of organism always ends the food chain?
A
Producer (Plants)
B
Consumers (Organisms)
C
Predators (Organisms)
D
Decomposers
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Detritivores and decomposers are the final part of food chains. Detritivores are organisms that eat nonliving plant and animal remains.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Decomposers are the organisms that come last in every food chain. These organisms feed on and get energy from dead or decaying plant and animal material. Things like fungi, bacteria, snails and insects.

Detailed explanation-3: -In a food web nutrients are recycled in the end by decomposers. Animals like shrimp and crabs can break the materials down to detritus. Then bacteria reduce the detritus to nutrients. Decomposers work at every level, setting free nutrients that form an essential part of the total food web.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most decomposers are microscopic organisms, including protozoa and bacteria. Other decomposers are big enough to see without a microscope. They include fungi along with invertebrate organisms sometimes called detritivores, which include earthworms, termites, and millipedes.

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