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Consider a food chain consisting of:
Wheat, Rat, Snakes, Peacock.
What will happen if all the snakes are killed ?

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If all the snakes of food chain are killed, the peacocks belonging to the next level will also die. Also the population of rats in the preceding level will highly increase.
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