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Food Chain

(ecology)

a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member.An interconnected chain of organisms indicating which species are predators and which are prey in relation to one another. All energy in a food chain will begin with the autotrophs, which will be fed upon by [[herbivores.


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