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Study the food chain given below:

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A. In the given food chain, the amount of energy available at the fourth trophic level is 10 kJ, what will be the energy available at the producer level?

B. Is it possible to have three more trophic levels in the above food chain? Justify.

C. Which of these trophic levels will have the maximum amount of pesticide, if it had washed down in the water body from agricultural fields. Why?

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A. 10000 KJ

B. No, the loss of energy at each step is so much that very little usable energy will be left.

C. Large fish, due to biological magnification of pesticide.