Question
Why does biomagnification occur with certain substances? Name two such substances.
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Answer
Biomagnification is increase in the concentration of certain toxic substances at successive trophic levels; this happens because these substances can neither be metabolised nor excreted, but get accumulated and passed on to the next higher trophic level, e.g. Mercury and DDT.
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