What limits the length of a food chain? What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: Energy transfers between trophic levels are not very efficient, so energy losses limit the
length of a food chain.

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Which of the following is true of zinc?

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In the early 1900s, cities such as Philadelphia reduced the incidence of typhoid fever by

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