Environment & Ecology · Ecotoxicology & Bioaccumulation
The ecological process of bioaccumulation occurs when:
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- 1A pollutant's concentration progressively increases as it moves up successive trophic levels in a food chain.
- 2An organism effectively breaks down and excretes hazardous substances over its lifetime without retaining them.
- 3A heavy metal is transferred directly from an aquatic environment to apex predators, skipping primary producers.
- 4A single organism absorbs a substance at a faster rate than it can metabolize or excrete over its lifetime.✓
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A single organism absorbs a substance at a faster rate than it can metabolize or excrete over its lifetime.
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