NEET Biology question

A food web is more realistic than a food chain for showing the feeding relationships in an ecosystem because

(A)It compares the number of consumers to the number of microorganisms in an ecosystem
(B)Food chains use only a small sampling of organisms
(C)A food web explains why there are more producers than consumers
(D)Producers are usually eaten by many different consumers and most consumers are eaten by more than one predatorCorrect

Answer: (D)

Solution

A food web is more realistic precisely because it captures the fact that, in nature, a given producer is fed upon by multiple different consumers and most

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