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What organism gains the most energy from its food? Why?

What organism gains the most energy from its food? Why?-example-1
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Food web

In a food web, the organisms that take advantage of the greatest amount of energy are the producers, that is, autotrophic organisms such as kelps and other algae in this food web in particular. This is due to the fact that they only lose 1% of that energy in form of heat, unlike the organisms of superior levels of the food chain that lose, -each level-, 10% of the energy of the previous level.

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