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Industrial effluents and domestic sewage seriously affect fresh water bodies. For protecting aquatic life Govt. of India recently declared an animals as National aquatic animal.
a. Identify the animals.
ii. Distinguish biomagification from eutrophication.

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a.Fresh water dolphin.
b.Biomagnifiations refers to the increase in concentration of the toxicant at successive trophic levels.
Eutrophication is the natural ageing of a lake by nutrient enrichment of its water .
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