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Water pollution disrupts the nature of food chains as well as food webs -Justify.

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(i) Pollutants such as lead and cadmium are taken up by primary consumers, where they can be lethal or get accumulated.
(ii) When these animals are consumed by secondary consumers, there pollutants are get enhanced by a process called biomagnification.
(iii) The food chain may get disrupted at any trophic level due to the magnification and accumulation of these chemicals.
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