You find that there are several organisms that live exclusiv

You find that there are several organisms that live exclusively in this field. You need to calculate growth efficiency (E_G) 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 E_G below.

Solution

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