Anatomy and physiology: Your friend Jared works a highly stressful job as an air traffic controller. His diet during his shift consists mainly of candy bars and sodas. He has been sick more often and jokingly exclaims to you that his job is “aging him prematurely.” Your response to Jared is that this may not be far from the truth. Why?

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answer;

a. sheep consumption efficiency would be reduced.

explanation;

-trophic efficiency is a measure of how much energy occurs at one level divided by the energy at the level immediately below it . trophic efficiency incorporates three types of efficiency:

-the proportion of available energy that is consumed (consumption efficiency).   it is the proportion of the available biomass that is ingested by consumers.

-the proportion of ingested food that is assimilated (assimilation efficiency).

-the proportion of assimilated food that goes into new consumer biomass (production efficiency).

-in this case, the grasshoppers would affect sheep by reducing the proportion of the available biomass that is ingested by the sheep.