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How are contaminants magnified up the food chain?

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Biomagnification also called food web magnification or food web accumulation is the progressive increase in the concentration of contaminants in organisms as the trophic level increases. These unexpectedly large concentrations are the result of DDT biomagnification up the food web.

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