The C5b component is extremely labile, is not covalently bound to the membrane like C3b and C4b, and is rapidly inactivated unless it is stabilized by the binding of C6.

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Chain length   Average number of link between trophic level/ Total number of trophic level

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The rate of biomass production is called productivity

a. Primary production

b. Secondary production

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Components of primary production

a. Gross primary production - Total organic matter production including reparatory loss during measurement of period.

b. Net primary production - Amount of matter accumulated by plant per unit area given time. 

 Gross – net = respiration 

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Efficiency of Gross primary production Trophic-level transfer efficiency appears to average around 10%, though there is much variation. In some marine food chains, for example, it can exceed 30%.

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Deserts are not very efficient at converting huge amounts of incident energy from sunlight into plant biomass.  Most ecosystems based on phytoplankton have very low efficiencies, usually less than 0.5%.

Photosynthetic efficiency of an ecosystem as a whole varies between 1% and 2%.