Asked by jay

If a deer eats grass, what percentage of energy will the deer acquire from the grass?
0.1 percent
1 percent
10 percent

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
10 percent.

Explanation: by the ecological "10% rule" only about one-tenth of the energy at one trophic level is incorporated into the biomass of the next level; the rest is lost as heat, used for metabolism, or excreted as waste.