The decomposers or transformers comprise entities such as fungi or bacteria which break down dead plant and animal matter and return it in the... View Article
Food chains are vital as they depict the intricate relationships in ecosystems. They serve as conceptual resources to illustrate feeding... View Article
The decomposers or transformers comprise entities such as fungi or bacteria which break down dead plant and animal matter and return it in the... View Article
In an ecosystem, a group of entities occupying the same level in a food chain is a trophic level. It is the position of an entity in the food... View Article
Only close to 10% of energy in a food chain is passed on to the next trophic level. The rest passes out of the food chain in many ways such as... View Article
A food chain can break when one of the species or links in the chain is no longer active or present due to interference by feral animals or... View Article
Apex predator. The predator at the top of a food chain is the apex predator or alpha predator, with no natural predators. These species are... View Article
Decomposers are often fungus, bacterium or invertebrates which feed on and disintegrate dead animal and plant matter thus making organic... View Article
Grasshoppers are primary consumers or first-level consumers. This is because they eat plants, which are producers. Grasshoppers depend on plants... View Article
The short answer to it is, yes. A flower can have one carpel, two or more distinct carpels or two or more carpels fused into a single structure.... View Article
There comes a stage when in chronic kidney disease, one would require a kidney transplant or dialysis to live. This is the stage known as kidney... View Article
Each enzyme has an optimum pH range. Optimum pH of most enzymes is close to neutral or neutral. Enzyme activity is said to be maximum in the pH... View Article
NPP or Net primary productivity is the gross primary productivity minus the rate of energy loss to maintenance and metabolism. It is the rate at... View Article
Filter feeders could be important for the maintenance of the health of water bodies. They are known to mitigate diseases by removing pathogens... View Article
Food webs increase the stability of an ecosystem as the food web includes all the interconnected food chains. These webs are important conceptual... View Article
Oxygen is crucial to the process of energy production through the electron transport chain - a significant component of cellular respiration.... View Article
In the mitochondria. Cellular respiration takes place in eukaryotic cells as well as prokaryotic cells. In eukaryotes, most of the reactions... View Article
Most of the steps of cellular respiration occur in mitochondria. The complete breakdown of glucose is a series of chemical reactions indicating... View Article
Similarities at molecular level indicate the common ancestry. Comparison of the DNA sequences helps in determining how closely two species are... View Article