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A Food Chain Occurring in the Sea Which Provides Food for Many People Can Be Written as : Phytoplankton → Zooplankton → X → Y Name the Organism Which Y Could Be. - Science

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A food chain occurring in the sea which provides food for many people can be written as :
phytoplankton → zooplankton → X → Y

Name the organism which Y could be.

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Solution

Y could be a big fish.

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Chapter 5: Our Environment - Exercise 1 [Page 230]

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Lakhmir Singh Biology (Science) [English] Class 10
Chapter 5 Our Environment
Exercise 1 | Q 76.4 | Page 230

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