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**Assertion:** In a food chain, members of successive higher levels are fewer in number. **Reason:** The number of organisms at any trophic level depends upon the availability of organisms, which serve as food at the lower level.

Answer: (A)

Solution

Since each trophic transfer loses roughly 90% of the available energy, fewer organisms can be supported at each successive higher trophic level (true assertion), and this is precisely because the number

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