Which food chain has the highest proportion of energy transfer. Grass -> cow -> human. Grass -> grasshopper -> rat -> snake. Rice -> human

Rice -> human. due to it having the fewest trofic levels (stages in the food chain) with each trofic level energy is lost through heat and movement as well as energy lost due to unabsorbtion in the digestive tract.

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