Organisms that eat cows do not obtain a great deal of energy from the cows. In fact, they get less energy than the cows obtain from the plants that they eat. Why is this true?

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Maci Cervantes

Biology

14 February, 10:54

Organisms that eat cows do not obtain a great deal of energy from the cows. In fact, they get less energy than the cows obtain from the plants that they eat. Why is this true?

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Cortez Gross · Answer 1

The cow uses all but stores ten percent of what they eat.

Explanation:

For example, a plant produces 100 percent energy. The plant needs to use the energy for survival.

When a cow eats the plant, it only gains 10 percent of the energy.

Then, say a wolf eats the cow.

The wolf only gets 1 percent of the energy that is produced by the plant.