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Meave60
Jan 10, 2015

Yes, the 10% rule would still be in effect. The ten percent rule refers to the fact that a consumer is able to store only about 10% of the energy contained in the food organism it eats. It has no bearing on when the prey organism last ate. The other 90% of energy ingested is used to fuel life processes, such as cellular respiration, protein synthesis, reproduction, and other metabolic activities, and released as heat.

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