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The process in which nutrient enriched water bodies support a dense plant population, which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen and results in subsequent loss of biodiversity is known as :

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Eutrophication

B

Biochemical oxygen demand

C

Water pollution

D

Soil pollution

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