Q.In a food chain, the herbivores are represented by ______.

A food chain is a straight-line sequence of organisms in which each one feeds on the organism before it, typically running to four or five trophic levels — for example, grass (producer) → deer (primary consumer/herbivore) → leopard (secondary consumer/carnivore). Food chains are of three types: the grazing food chain (GFC), which begins with living green plants; the detritus food chain (DFC), which begins with dead organic matter and is driven by decomposers (saprotrophs) such as fungi and bacteria; and the parasitic food chain. Each position in a food chain is a trophic level — producers form the first trophic leve …