Answer:
A scientist's response to the increase in food poisoning sick patients should be examining the type and source within the foods consumed.
Explanation:
Food poisoning involves the effects that decomposed or contaminated food can have on a group of people who eat it, and can cause illness in all or most individuals.
Although patients' symptoms should be treated and preventive education provided, the best course of action for a scientist is to investigate the cause.
The response of a scientist to the increase in food poisoning cases is to determine the type and source of food, as well as the nature of the alteration it has -decomposition, contamination, bacteria- in order to <u>eliminate the source and avoid new cases</u>.
- <em>The other options may be valid in the face of the appearance of food poisoning cases, but they are not the best procedure with which a scientist would respond. </em>
This question is incomplete as the specific food chain is not provided. In general, a food chain will have a primary producer at the base of the chain. This is an organism that is able to utilise a form of energy to convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to a carbohydrate. For terrestrial food chains, these are typically plants, who by utilising the energy from the sun, are able to convert carbon dioxide to carbohydrates. The subsequent level in the food chain may be a primary consumer, typically herbivores, that consume plant matter. Subsequent links in the chain would typically be secondary consumers, who would be carnivores, omnivores or decomposers. Carnivores would typically be predators and would be at the apex of the food chain. Energy is lost from one link to the subsequent link in the food chain, through basic respiration and inefficient energy transfer from one link to another. This explains why more resources (land, water and air) are required to grow meat rather than plant matter. More of the sun's energy is available within the lower trophic levels in a food chain, before much of it is lost as energy moves up the food chain. An easy example to illustrate this is that much of the livestock raised in the USA is fed grain. If people rather ate the grain than the livestock, they could obtain all their required energy from a smaller amount of grain then would be needed to raise the meat they require.
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Answer:
herbivore eats only plants, ex. cow, squirrel, caterpillar
carnivore eats only meat, ex. tiger, wolf, shark
omnivore eats both plants and meat, ex. humans, birds, dogs
decomposer feeds off and breaks down organic material, ex. mushrooms, fungi
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