Q. The process of building up of harmful chemicals inside a living organism is called as _______

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Q. The organism is at a risk if the amount of toxin being absorbed is more than that being excreted out of the body.

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Q. What type of chemicals get accumulated in an organism during bio-accumulation process?

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Q. What happens when toxins gets accumulated inside the body of an organism?

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Q. What is the following step is not included in the bio accumulation process?

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Q. Which of the following is the source through which toxic chemicals enter the organism’s body?

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Q. The harmful toxic compounds from the environment gets deposited in an organism within _____________

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Q. The harmful toxic compounds get accumulated within the first organism in the ___________

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Q. Bio accumulation is the concentration of pollutant across the food chain.

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Q. The type of environmental pollutants that remain in the environment for a long time period is called as Persistent pollutant.

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Q. The type of environmental pollutants that remain in the environment for a long time period is called as short-lived pollutant.

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Q. Sea foods are the major source of bio-accumulation in humans.

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Q. The local chemical bond that overcome the dissipation energy of chemical, results in _______

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Q. Bio-accumulation in the living tissues can happen when the chemicals accumulated crosses the physical barrier.

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Q. The toxicant has to cross several sub cellular structures for the ________

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Q. In Zooplankton, bio-accumulation can occur through direct surface absorption from aqueous medium.

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Q. Which of the following factors doesn’t influence the direct uptake of toxicants during bio-accumulation?

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Q. Size of organism is not a deciding factor for bioaccumulation.

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Q. The solubility of the toxicant through the membrane is dependent on the strength of the bonds.

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Q. Lipophilic compounds can enter the tissues of terrestrial plants through ___________

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