Inquiry into Life
Inquiry into Life
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780073525525
Author: Mader, Sylvia S./
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
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Chapter 35, Problem 1CS
Summary Introduction

To analyze:

The concentration of pollutants in animals as one move from lower trophic level to higher trophic level.

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Bioamplification, also known as biomagnification refers to the enhancing quantity of an element, like a toxic chemical, in the tissues of an accepting species at consecutively higher levels in a food chain. This enhancement can take place as a consequence of persistence, food chain energetics, or low or non-existent rate of excretion of the pollutant or internal degradation, mainly due to water-insolubility.

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