Suppose that the net secondary production in a community is 520 kilograms. The respiration of heterotrophs is 1,400 kilograms, and the egestion is 350 kilograms. Plant respiration is 2,700 kilograms. How many kilograms of plant material did the heterotrophs ingest?

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Modes of Nutrition

It is a biological process of providing or obtaining food that is necessary for growth and health. It includes many physiological processes - absorption, ingestion, assimilation, catabolism, excretion, etc. In biology, the science that deals with nutrition's physiological and chemical processes are called "nutritional science."