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Question
Organisms at a higher trophic level have less energy available. Comment.
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Solution
The transfer of energy follows the 10 per cent law – only 10 per cent of the energy is transferred to each trophic level from the lower trophic level. So, higher trophic level have less energy as compared to lower trophic level.
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