What is generally true about biomass and energy as we move from one trophic level to the next?

A. They both increase.
B. Organisms at one trophic level always
consume all of the resources from the level
below them.
C. Not all energy is transferred to the next
trophic level.
D. All of the energy stored initially in organic
molecules by the primary producers will be
available to the secondary consumers.
E. Biomass increases but energy decreases.


C

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