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What happens to most of the Energy that an organism gets from consuming food?

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What happens to most of the Energy that an organism gets from consuming food? Help-example-1
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When energy enters a trophic level, some of it is stored as biomass (as part of organisms' bodies). This is the energy that's available to the next trophic level, since only energy stored as biomass can get eaten.Explanation:

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it’s the second answer. “it gets used for metabolic process & released as heat” i think.
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