What is Biomagnification?

Water pollution may severely affect human, plant, and animal life. The effect of water pollution on marine animals and plants is visible in two phenomena— eutrophication and biomagnification.

Biomagnification

When the quantities of harmful substances such as pesticides and insecticides increase in the food chain of marine and aquatic organisms and are in turn consumed by other living beings, it is known as biomagnification.


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