DDT residues are rapidly passed through food chain causing biomagnification because DDT is
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DDT is a chlorine containing pesticide used in agriculture. DDT is rapidly passed through food chain causing biomagnification because it is stable, accumulates in the soil and concentrates in the fatty tissue or internal organs of body (as DDT is fat soluble substance). So, DDT takes may years to break down and it enters into body of other organisms with predation. So the amount of DDT biomagnifies.
So, the correct answer is 'Lipid soluble'.
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Answer:
moderately toxic
Explanation:
Biomagnification refers to increase in concentration of the toxicant at successive trophic levels. This happens because a toxic substance accumulated by an organism cannot be metabolised or excreted, and is thus passed on to the next higher trophic level..
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