SSC
BIOLOGY
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Question
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Only 10 percent of the energy stored in an organism can be passed on to the next feeding/trophic level. Of the remaining energy, some is used for the organism’s ____, and the rest is eliminated as heat.
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reproduction
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body fat
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body tissue
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life processes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -As little as 10 percent of the energy at any trophic level is transferred to the next level; the rest is lost largely through metabolic processes as heat.
Detailed explanation-2: -On average, only about 10% of the energy stored as biomass in one trophic level-e.g., primary producers-gets stored as biomass in the next trophic level-e.g., primary consumers.
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