bioaccumulation

15 letters in word "bioaccumulation": A A B C C I I L M N O O T U U.

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• Definitions:
• Process by which some radionuclides or chemicals build up to higher concentrations in an organism relative to concentrations found in the ...
• The process by which the concentrations of some toxic chemicals gradually increase in living tissue, such as in plants, fish, or people as they breathe contaminated air, drink contaminated water, or eat contaminated food.
• A process by which chemical substances are ingested and retained by organisms, either from the environment directly or through consumption of food containing the substances.
• The tendency for substances to increase in concentration in living organisms as they take in contaminated air, water, or food because the substances are very slowly metabolized or excreted.
• intracellular accumulation of contaminants (such as mercury) by living organisms.
• the process by which compounds accumulate or build up in an organism at a rate faster than they can be broken down
• the accumulation of a substance (contaminant) within the tissues of an organism.
• The accumulation of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in various tissues of a living organism
• The net accumulation of a contaminant or toxic substance in an organism from all sources, including air, water, and food.
• Concentration of substances, especially toxicants, in the tissue of plants and animals.
• The process of accumulation leading to progressively higher concentrations of a contaminant up through the food chain, via predators ingesting prey that have previously accumulated contaminants in their body tissue.
• means that a substance is fat-soluble and therefore builds up in the tissues of living things. Most bioaccumulative substances, including many formed during the PVC life cycle, magnify as they move up the food chain, reaching concentrations in species high on the food chain that are millions of ...
• Concentration of chemicals in the fatty tissues of living things that are eaten by other things so that the concentrations become ever greater.
• The absorption, via breathing, eating, drinking or active uptake, and concentration of a substance in plants or animals.
• Bioaccumulation is the increase in concentration of a substance in the tissues of a living organism throughout its lifetime. Everyday we are exposed to a mixture of substances through contaminated air, water, food and products. ...
• The process by which a contaminant accumulates in the tissues of an individual organism. For example, certain chemicals in food eaten by a fish tend to accumulate in its liver and other tissues.
• The uptake and storage of substances from the environment by animals and plants over time. A number of pollutants (see persistent organic pollutants) may be stored for years in our body fat and may be discharged in breast milk.
• When a substance accumulates in living tissues in the environment, usually with poisonous effects.
• The accumulation of contaminant by organisms from all routes of exposure.
• the uptake of chemical substances from the environment or food, their concentration and retention by organisms
• The uptake of toxic chemicals leading to elevated concentrations of those substances within plant or animal tissue.
• The uptake and retention of environmental substances by an organism by means other than the ingestion of food. See Biomagnification. Bioassay
• The absorption and concentration of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and certain pesticides in plants and animals. ...
• The tendency for a pollutant to accumulate in the tissues of plants or animals.
• Organism's accumulation of harmful substance in their body: such as a radioactive element, a heavy metal, or an organochlorine in a biological organism, especially one that forms part of the food chain. Also called biomagnification.
• If the input of a toxic substance to an organism is greater than the rate at which the substance is lost, the organism is said to be bioaccumulating that substance. ...

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