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You find that there are several organisms that live exclusively in this field. You need to calculate growth efficiency (EG) for these two organisms. The first is the field cricket (Acheta domesticus) and the second is the mouse (Peromyscus leucopus). To shorten your calculation, you will only calculate a value for the organism with the higher growth efficiency. The cricket is able to assimilate 2400kcal/m2 and his NP is 880.8kcal/m2. The mouse assimilates 900kcal/m2 and his NP is 26.1kcal/m2.

2. Show the calculation (2) ONLY for the organism (1) with the higher EG below.

Explanation / Answer

Higher growth efficiency for cricket is .366.

Higher growth efficiency for mouse is .029

For next question how to calculate is based on general formula- how much food ingested is converted into body growth and so for that

We put 880/2400*100 = 36 % will be our answer

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