0-5% of the energy taken in by a consumer is used to create new body tissue.
Further Explanation:
In the food chain, different organism feed on each other to transmit the energy from one organism to another. The food chain is initiated from primary producers which move further in upward direction. In the food chain, primary producers are autotrophs. Organisms that are considered in nature as the autotrophs make their own food. Primary consumers mainly feed on primary producers and they are herbivores in nature. Heterotrophs can be considered as the herbivores that are mainly feed on plants.
The conversion of stored energy into the new tissue is mainly referred as the secondary production. The percentage of assimilate energy that is converted to the new tissue differ from one organism to another. In vertebrates, the percentage is about 2%. This percentage is as low as this, because vertebrates need high amount of energy to maintain constancy in their internal environment, so most of the energy is utilized. So, energy needed for consumer to make new tissue is 0-5%.
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Answer Details:
Grade: High School
Subject: Biology
Chapter: Ecology
Keywords:
Energy, pyramid, food chain, food web, trophic level, consumers, producers, primary, secondary, herbivore, autotrophs, photosynthesis, animal, fungi.
