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Identify the definition of biomagnification.

1.the accumulation over time of a chemical in a living organism.
2.the process of energy increasing in amount as you move up through the trophic levels in a food chain.
3.the accumulation of a chemical from food exposure that results in a concentration that is greater in higher trophic levels.
4.the process of using a microscope to inspect a living organism.

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basically biomagnification describes how toxins get in the body of a trophic level and increase over time as larger quantity of that trophic level are needed since only 10% of energy is transferred form one trophic level to the other.

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