In a food chain, consumers gather energy by . Can someone plz help a.

consuming organisms at a lower trophic level

b.

consuming organisms at a higher trophic level

c.

decomposing dead organic matter

d.

absorbing sunlight directly

Ayoung boy has been found and police are trying to locate his family they take a dna sample from him and begin collec dna samples from families who have missing children if police use dna samples only from the fathers, which type of dn technology can they use to identify the boy's parent? y-chromosome analysis omtdna (mitochondrial dna) analysis vntrs (variable tandem repeats) o pcr (polymerase chain reaction) analysis

Explain why biological control methods are generally environmentally superior to chemical pest control methods.

Write the balanced chemical equation forphotosynthesis.