1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Mazyrski [523]
3 years ago
11

Term referring to the process in which certain compounds increase in concentration within biotic tissues as they move up through

foodwebs.
a. Biomagnification
b. Bioenlargement
c. Bioassimilation
d. Bioconsumation
Biology
1 answer:
melisa1 [442]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

a. Biomagnification

Explanation:

Biomagnification is the name given to the progressive accumulation of substances from one trophic level to another along a food chain. Thus, the substance will have its highest concentration in individuals who occupy trophic levels furthest from producers.

For biomagnification to occur, substances must be fat soluble (lipid soluble) and thus adhere to living tissues. Another feature of substances that undergo biomagnification is that they are generally not biodegradable or metabolized by the body.

The phenomenon is quite common with heavy metals (lead; mercury) and certain chlorinated and aromatic organic compounds with higher molecular mass, such as the insecticide DDT.

You might be interested in
Name each layer of earth starting from the center include both layers of the core and all layers of the mantle
Alexeev081 [22]
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, and Crust.
5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which term best describes the protist shown above?
Illusion [34]
Multicellular I think
8 0
3 years ago
Rhodobacter cells perform photosynthesis in the presence of light and grow heterotrophically in the dark. After being cultured i
Marrrta [24]

Answer:

Phenotypic changes:

When Rhodobacter is cultured in total darkness for multiple generations, the ability to produce it's own photopigment reduces with time with little or no ability to undergo its own photosynthesis due to absence of enzymes or pigment for photosynthesis.

It becomes expensive for the Rhodobacter to undergo photosynthesis. This allows mutants that can grow in the dark to take over from the culture grown in the dark.

Evolutionary processes:

It's natural selection that allows the fittest organism to survive. As in the case of the mutants

5 0
3 years ago
The basic building blocks of DNA and RNA are,
Vinvika [58]
The answer is nucleus acids
6 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
What would happen to the size of the carnivore population if the herbivore population increased?
yanalaym [24]
Increases because there's more food for the carnivores, as a result, the gradually the herbivores will decrease as the reach to a point they are no longer able to feed all the predators
3 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • What group characterizes itself by feeding milk to their offspring.
    14·2 answers
  • What are the four essential components of natural selection?
    14·1 answer
  • Scientists studied a flock of tundra swans that spent the winter along rivers in virginia. the swans migrate in the spring to ot
    9·1 answer
  • You have just eaten a meal high in complex carbohydrates. Which enzymes will help to digest the meal?
    6·1 answer
  • Which pair do you predict would have the largest difference in mass-specific basal metabolic rate?
    15·1 answer
  • Where is the oldest layer of sediment? the bottom, top or middle ?
    10·2 answers
  • __________ is indigestible by animals because they lack __________, which is a __________.
    12·1 answer
  • You have a batch of tomato plants with hairy stems that you grew by crossing plants that had hairy stems (HH) with plants that h
    13·2 answers
  • Why do I not get sick when I eat cheese with holes in it, but I do get sick when I eat chicken that has gone bad?
    10·1 answer
  • What is anemia, why do people with sickle cell anemia have anemia?
    13·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!