Biology PYQ 359 of 399 · Ecology, Ecosystem & Biodiversity

When we eat the meat of goat or sheep, then we are -

  1. APrimary consumers
  2. BSecondary consumers
  3. CTertiary consumer
  4. DNone of the above

40th BPSC Prelims 1995

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Correct answer: (b) Secondary consumers

Explanation

In a food chain, plants are producers, animals that eat plants are primary consumers, and animals that eat herbivores are secondary consumers.

Goats and sheep are herbivores (primary consumers), so people who eat their meat are secondary consumers.

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