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Metabolically active organisms accumulate more amount of toxicant.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was posed to me in final exam.

My enquiry is from Factors Affecting Bioaccumulation of Xenobiotics in division Bioaccumulation of Toxicants of Environmental Biotechnology

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The correct option is (a) True

Best explanation: Metabolically active organisms accumulate more amount of toxicant as it gets accumulated by active membrane transport particularly those toxicants which are either metals or charged ion.

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