Some of the matter taken in by an animal can be transferred to the next level of food chain because some of the matter has been consumed by the animal organism for natural processes.
Food chain is a term that refers to the food relationship that involves several species of a biological community. The trophic chain is based on the transfer of nutritive substances in which each species feeds on a preceding species and so on.
A peculiarity of the food chain is that not all the material that an animal species ingests is transferred to the animal that feeds on it. This is because part of this material has already been consumed as energy for all the natural processes of the body, so only a small part is transferred to the next.
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