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Which of the following gets the minimum energy through the food chain in an ecosystem?

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According to the ten percent law, only 10% of the energy is available to the organism in the succeeding trophic level.

Hence, with an increase in the trophic level, the amount of energy received reduces.

Since large carnivores are at the highest trophic level in any food chain, they will get the minimum energy.

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