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Create an aquatic food chain in a water body into which effluents flow from a pesticide factory. Diagrammatically represent and answer the following questions :
(i) What is the phenomenon called? (ii) Explain biomagnification of pesticide.

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(i) Biomagnification or biological magnification.
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