What is biomagnification?

If a water body is contaminated with a toxicant, its biomagnification will be more in

What do you understand by biomagnification?

Which of the following causes biomagnification?

DDT residues are rapidly passed through food chain causing biomagnification because DDT is

Explain biomagnification of DDT in an aquatic food chain. How does it affect the bird population?

Write a short note on Biomagnification.

Define biomagnification. Give one example and its ill-effects in humans.

Create an aquatic food chain in a water body into which effluents flow from a pesticide factory. Diagrammatically represent biomagnification in this food chain Explain why a decline in the predator bird population is expected when its feeds on the tertiary consumer of this food chain.