NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Methylmercury biomagnifies through the food chain as predators eat other organisms and absorb the contaminants that their food sources contained. Over time, an individual who consumes plants or prey contaminated with methylmercury will acquire levels greater than in either its habitat or its food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Biomagnification takes place as chemicals transfer from lower trophic levels to higher trophic levels within a food web, resulting in a higher concentration in apex predators.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -This is biomagnification, and it means that higher-level predators-fish, birds, and marine mammals-build up greater and more dangerous amounts of toxic materials than animals lower on the food chain.

Detailed explanation-5: -There is a high potential for bioaccumulation and biomagnification with mercury, with biomagnified concentrations reported in fish up to 100, 000 times the ambient water concentrations (Eisler 1987a, Callahan et al. 1979). Methylmercury is the most toxic form.