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A food chain occurring in the sea which provides food for many people can be written as:
phytoplankton → zooplankton → X → Y

(d) Name the organism which Y could be.

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Solution

Y is a tertiary consumer that eats X - small fishes.

Y could be either big fishes, ducks, and humans.

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