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What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1464102448
book What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan cover

What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Edition 2ISBN: 978-1464102448
Exercise 42
The 10% rule of energy-conversion efficiency:
A) explains why big, fierce animals are so rare.
B) explains why the biomass of herbivores must exceed that of carnivores.
C) limits the length of food chains.
D) suggests that 90% of what an organisms eats is used in cellular respiration or is lost as feces.
E) All of the above are correct.
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