Consider a simple food chain in which a grasshopper eats grass, the grasshopper is eaten by a frog, the frog is eaten by a snake, and a burying beetle feeds on the snake after it dies . Which of the following is not correctly matched

A) beetle—detritivore
B) frog—secondary consumer
C) grasshopper—herbivore
D) snake—primary consumer
E) grass—producer


D

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