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#Question id: 12465


Which statement best describes what ultimately happens to the chemical energy that is not converted to new biomass in the process of energy transfer between trophic levels in an ecosystem?

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles
  1. It is undigested and winds up in the feces and is not passed on to higher trophic levels
  2. It is used by organisms to maintain their life processes through cellular respiration reactions.
  3. Heat produced by cellular respiration is used by heterotrophs to thermoregulate.
  4. It is dissipated into space as heat in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics.