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It would be highly unlikely to discover a food chain containing 10 links.
This is mainly due to the loss of energy that occurs with transitions through the links in the chain.  Almost 90 percent of the energy obtained at one trophic level is lost when being transmitted to the other trophic level ( link in the food chain).
This means that the 10th link in the chain would get so little energy consuming the 9th level organism that it wouldn't be enough to survive.
The 2nd link gets only 10% of the initial energy absorbed by the 1st link in the chain. If the chain is 10 links long, you would lose 90% with each link, leaving next to nothing for the last few links.

The food chain is an interlink of the food and energy network that starts from the producers and is followed by the consumers. It is unlikely for a food chain to have 10 links.

What is a food chain?

A food chain is a sequence of food and energy transfer from one organism to another. The interlinking of the food chain leads to the formation of the food web.

The presence of ten links is unlikely as in a food chain there is a loss of energy at each trophic level. At each trophic level, 10% of energy is lost which results in very less energy transfer to the next level.

Therefore, it is unlikely to have ten links in the food chain.

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