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What do you understant by biomagnification?

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Biomagnification refers to the increase in the concentration of the toxic substances at successive trophic level is in the food chain. This happens because a toxic substance accumlated by an organism cannot be metabolised or excreted and when this organism is eaten up by another animal of higher trophic level , it is passed on to this and then to the next higher trophic level and so on.
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