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| The following is a food chain that ends with human: plants → bee → human |
- Explain how plants provide food for bees.
- How do bees provide food for humans?
- How does this food chain differ from a usual food chain involving human such as: plants → goat → human?
- Do you think that the food chain given in this question can really be regarded as a food chain? Explain your answer.
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Solution
- Plants provide nectar and pollen to bees, which serve as their food.
- Bees produce honey, which is consumed by humans as food.
- In the food chain Plants → Bee → Human, humans obtain honey from bees without eating the bees. In the usual food chain Plants → Goat → Human, humans obtain food by eating the goat.
- No. It cannot be regarded as a true food chain because humans do not feed on bees; they only consume the honey produced by bees. A true food chain involves one organism being eaten by the next organism.
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