Question

The following is an example for parasitic food chain:​

Answer 1

Answer:

Question:

Which of the following option is a parasitic food chain?

Trees → Fruits eating birds → Lice and bugs

Grass → Rabbit → Fox → Tiger

Grass → Grasshopper → Frog → Snake → Hawk

Phytoplankton → Zooplankton → Fish → Hawk

Answer - 1. Trees → Fruits eating birds → Lice and bugs is an example of the parasitic food chain

Explanation:

• In a food web, a food chain is a network of links formed by different levels (trophic levels) starting from producers, then herbivores (primary consumers), and ending on either apex predator species, decomposers, or detritivores.
• A parasitic food chain is a chain that starts from a herbivore and ends at the smaller organism (that depends on the larger organism) that takes energy as a predator from the previous trophic level. The larger organism is the host, and that smaller organism is the parasite. These parasites are consumers and live either inside the host or on the body. The pyramid shape is inverted in this food chain. The maximum number of bacteria and fungi comes in the parasitic food chain.
• Hence, Trees → Fruits eating birds → Lice and bugs, is an example of a parasitic food chain because lice and bugs are parasites that take energy in the form of food from fruit-eating birds.

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