Define primary consumers

Question

Give a brief explanation of primary consumers. Can food chain offering quaternary consumers without comprising secondary or tertiary consumers? Can a tertiary consumer of one chain be a primary or secondary consumer of another chain?

Answer 1

Primary consumers are living things which eat autotrophic beings, that is, they eat producers. Primary consumers forever belong to second tropic level of the chain. A food chain can’t enfold consumers of greater orders without comprising the consumer of the inferior orders. A consumer but can take part in various different chains not always belonging to same consumer order in each and every of them.