The following is a food chain that ends with human:

Plants bee human


(a) Explain how plants provide food for bees.


(b) How do bees provide food for humans?


(c) How does this food chain differ from a usual food chain involving human such as: plants goat human?


(d) Do you think that the food chain given in this question can really be regarded as a food chain? Explain your answer.

a) Bees suck nectar from flowers of the plants. Bees collect nectar and convert it to honey.


b) Humans obtain honey from bees. The honey in bees comes from sucking nectar from flowers.


c) In a food chain comprising plant goat humans, humans directly eat goat meat. Whereas, in this food chain of plants bees and humans, humans do not directly eat bees, they eat honey obtained from bees. In this way the two food chains differ.


d) The food chain given in the question is not really a food chain because humans do not directly eat the bee as a food; they first obtain food from bees in the form of honey and then consume honey.


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