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Question
Give two differences between food chain and food web.
Solution
| Food Chain | Food Web |
| It consists of a series of organisms linked to each other through their feeding relationship. | It consists of a number of food chains interlinked to each other. |
| An organism at higher trophic level feeds on one organism occupying the lower trophic level, e.g., lion eating the deer. | An organism occupying the higher trophic level can feed upon more than one organism of lower trophic levels of different food chains, e.g., lion eating deer or fox. |
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