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1. : 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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2. Biomagnification can be defined as the rise or increase in the contaminated substances caused by the intoxicating environment. The contaminants might be heavy metals such as mercury, arsenic, and pesticides such as polychlorinated biphenyls and DDT
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3. Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification are two concepts intimately tied to human health and difficult ones to comprehend. There are many chemicals and toxins that can bioaccumulate in organisms and biomagnify through the food web, including DDT, PCBs, mercury, and algal biotoxins.
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4. Biomagnification is the process in which toxins are concentrated in an organism as larger animals continue to eat smaller animals. This process moves toxins up the food chain to larger organisms and is of particular concern with regards to concentrating dangerous toxins in larger species.
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5. Biomagnification means gathering various unimportant and at times harmful substances by organisms at different levels of a food chain. It occurs when industrial, agricultural, and human wastes are dumped into the oceans via rivers, sewers, streams, etc
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6. “ Biomagnification (or bioaccumulation) refers to the ability of living organisms to accumulate certain chemicals to a concentration larger than that occurring in their inorganic, non-living environment, or in the case of animals, in the food that they eat.
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7. Definition of Biological Magnification Also referred to as “ Biomagnification ” or “ bioamplification, ” biological magnification happens when there is an increase in the number of chemicals and toxins that accumulate through the trophic levels of a food chain.
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8. Biomagnification: Cadmium in the Food Web
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9. Students will know the concept of Biomagnification and be able to explain how Biomagnification relates to cadmium levels in blue crabs in the Hudson River
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10. Although Biomagnification is a natural phenomenon that happens in all organisms, the instances where it is worrisome are largely due to anthropogenic factors
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11. Biomagnification refers to the condition where the chemical concentration in an organism exceeds the concentration of its food when the major exposure route occurs from the organism’s diet.
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12. Biomagnification results from the process of bioaccumulation and biotransfer in which the tissue concentration increases in organisms higher up the food chain as a result of predation (see Figure 5)
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13. Biomagnification (or bioaccumulation) refers to the ability of living organisms to accumulate certain chemicals to a concentration larger than that occurring in their inorganic, non-living environment, or in the case of animals, in the food that they eat
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14. Biomagnification is also known as “ biological accumulation ” refers to the process by which certain toxic substances such as mercury and pesticides find their way into the environment like water bodies and gradually move up the food chain in much higher concentrations.
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15. Biomagnification, or biological magnification, is the increasing buildup of toxic substances within organisms that happens at each stage of the food chain.
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16. Students read about bioaccumulation and Biomagnification, then position themselves as part of the ocean food web
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17. Finally, they draw a food web for a specific marine ecosystem that illustrates Biomagnification …
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18. BIOACCUMULATION / Biomagnification EFFECTS Persistent Organic Chemicals such as PCBs bioaccumulate
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19. Biomagnification synonyms, Biomagnification pronunciation, Biomagnification translation, English dictionary definition of Biomagnification
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20. Biomagnification The result of bioaccumulation and biotransfer by which tissue concentrations of chemicals in organisms at one trophic level exceed tissue concentrations in organisms at the next lower trophic level in a food chain.
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21. Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is any concentration of a toxin, such as pesticides, in the tissues of tolerant organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain
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22. Biomagnification should not be confused with bioaccumulation
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23. While Biomagnification refers to increasing concentration of substances with each successive link in the food chain, bioaccumulation is the increase in the concentration of a particular substance within an organism.
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24. Biomagnification is a cumulative increase in the concentrations of a persistent substance (e.g
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25. Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification are two different processes that often occur in tandem with one another.Bioaccumulation is the process by which toxins enter the food web by building up in individual organisms, while Biomagnification is the process by which toxins are passed from one trophic level to the next (and thereby increase in concentration) within a food web.
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26. Biomagnification, which is the increase in concentration of toxins up the food chain, especially affects you
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27. Biomagnification of POPs occurs as they move up the food chain when predators consume prey, ingesting the POPs that have bioaccumulated in each prey item
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28. Microplastics compound this problem by adding another more concentrated layer of exposure to the Biomagnification process
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29. Biomagnification refers to the increased concentration of a toxic chemical the higher an animal is on the food chain
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30. The process of a buildup of certain chemical substances or toxins at the higher trophic levels of a food chain is termed as Biomagnification
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31. Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification 1
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32. Biomagnification It is also known as bioamplification or biological magnification It is the increase in concentration of a pollutant that occurs in a food chain as a consequence of: 1.
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33. Consequently, bioaccumulation, and in particular Biomagnification of MPs and associated chemical additives, are often inferred to occur in marine food webs
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34. Biomagnification: Pollution affects populations of organisms within ecosystems
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35. Figure 17.1.6.1: In Biomagnification the concentration of the persistent toxins (crosses) increase higher up the food chain
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36. Biomagnification • Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increase in concentration of a substance, such as the pesticide DDT, that occurs in a food chain as a consequence of: • Persistence • Food chain energetics • Low rate of internal degradation/excretion of the substance (often due to water
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37. ‘Vectors for POPs are the same as for heavy metals (i.e., ocean currents, precipitation, and Biomagnification through the food chain, especially the marine food chain).’ ‘Unfortunately, insecticides like DDT used to control the mosquitoes was found to ripple through the web of life in a process called Biomagnification, and proved to be
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38. Biomagnification refers to the increase in concentration of pollutants as they move from one trophic level to the next
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39. An apt example of Biomagnification will be when small fish eat contaminated microscopic organisms, and big fish eat the small fish.
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40. Biomagnification Lab- Todd Shuskey 2012 CIBT Alumni Workshop Animals Ecology High School
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41. A video I did for science class that helps explain Biomagnification
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42. This process is called Biomagnification, and it takes place when organisms higher in the food chain eat many of the smaller organisms that have bioaccumulated the chemical from the environment
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43. Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification
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44. Bioaccumulation & Biomagnification-Lab Background The concepts of bioaccumulation and Biomagnification (or biological magnification) are often confused
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45. Biomagnification doesn’t occur with degradable chemicals/substances for example sugar, tea, cheese, milk etc
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46. Biomagnification: how DDT becomes concentrated as it passes through a food chain
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47. The slope of the simple linear regression between log10 transformed mercury (Hg) concentration and stable nitrogen isotope values (δ15N), hereafter called trophic magnification slope (TMS), from several trophic levels in a food web can represent the overall degree of Hg Biomagnification
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BIOMAGNIFICATION [ˌbīōˌmaɡnəfəˈkāSH(ə)n]
Biomagnification is the process in which toxins are concentrated in an organism as larger animals continue to eat smaller animals.
Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increasing concentration of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in the tissues of tolerant organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.
Biological magnification occurs by increasing the toxicity of poisonous substances as those substances move up the food chain. An example of biological magnification and its dangers is any small fish that eats plankton that has been tainted with mercury.
Biological magnification definition, the increasing concentration of toxic substances within each successive link in the food chain. See more.