what is biological magnification?
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The man-made wrongful process of harmful chemical substances and heavy metals getting mixed in big river bodies (lakes, rivers, canals and seas) and then move into the food chains of the ecosystems is called biological magnification. The result is that they get into the diet of aquatic organisms. Then these get into the bodies of higher level predators in the food chain.
The increase in toxic materials in the organisms higher up in the food chain, due to their presence in the organisms in the lower levels is called biological magnification.
Because of mixing of toxic chemical substances in water and Earth, the animals, birds, fish and humans who feed on these get infected. Their bodies build gradually materials harmful to their own health.
Reduce the effect of biomagnification or biological magnification by
1. preventing oily wastes from cooking, oil, grease, chemicals, dyes, wasted pills, medications, used sanitary napkins, cleaning agents, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers into the sewerage or drainage through sink in the kitchen or flushing through toilets.
2. Dispose of the garbage properly through the municipal disposal system.
3. Organic farming reduces the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.
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☆☞ Biological magnification the process by which a compound (such as a pollutant or pesticide) increases its concentration in the tissues of organisms as it travels up the food chain In a process known as biomagnification, fish accumulate mercury more rapidly than they excrete it, and every fish up the aquatic food chain contains more than the one it just ate.
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