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In this food chain, which organism has a maximum biomass and which organism has the least amount of energy from the sun?





rice → grasshopper → frog → snake → hawk

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Rice has the maximum biomass and hawk has the least amount of energy from the sun, in the food chain given in the question. The other choices given in the question, has neither maximum nor minimum amount of biomass. I hope that this is the answer that has actually come to your desired help.

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The organism with maximum biomass would be rice.

Biomass refers to the total mass of living organism present at any given trophic level.

Usually, the biomass is the maximum at the lowest trophic level or at the producer level. It keeps decreasing as we move up from one trophic level to the next.

The organism with the least amount of energy would be the hawk.

Like the biomass, the amount of energy present at any trophic level also decreases as we move to higher trophic levels.

It is because most of the energy present at any trophic level is lost as a result of cellular respiration and only around 10% energy is transferred to the next trophic level.

Thus, the hawk being present on the highest trophic level will have the least energy.

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