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The ten per cent law is associated with
(a) transfer of energy from various trophic levels to decomposers in a food chain
(b) transfer of ATP energy into muscular energy
(c) transfer of chemical energy from one organism to another
(d) transfer of sun's energy to the organisms called producers.
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Solution
transfer of chemical energy from one organism to another
The 10 per cent law is associated with the transfer of chemical energy from one organism to another.
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