Question

What makes plants beginning of the food chain?

Answer 1

Plants are at the beginning of every food chain that involves the Sun. All energy comes from the Sun and plants are the ones who make food with that energy.

Answer 2

Answer: This is so because plants are autotrophs.

Step-by-step explanation:

Living beings are classified into two classes on the basis of their ability to food consumption:

1. Autotrophs: These organisms have the ability to make their own food and they act as producers in the food chain. For Example: Green plants

2. Heterotrophs: These organisms does not make their own food but depend on other organisms for the food. These organisms act as consumers in the food chain. For Example: Human beings, Animals.

In the food chain, producers are the organisms which act as the beginning of the food chain. Hence, plants only begin the food chain.