Harmful Substances in Food Chains

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Harmful substances can cause damage to living things within food chains.

Harmful substances can disrupt the delicate balance and stability of the entire food chain, affecting multiple species.

Harmful substances primarily transfer in food chains through absorption by organisms.

Harmful substances, unlike energy, move through food chains and accumulate in organisms.

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Harmful substances accumulate in organisms as they move up the food chain, increasing in concentration.

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Harmful substances, such as pesticides, can accumulate in the bodies of living organisms in a food chain, causing harm to the entire ecosystem.
The potential impact of harmful substances in food chains is bioaccumulation, biomagnification, and eventually, harm to humans and the environment.
Harmful substances can alter the growth, development, and reproduction of living things in food chains, and even cause death.

The primary transfer mechanism for harmful substances in food chains is through consumption, where one organism eats another, transferring the harmful substances up the food chain.
Harmful substances, not energy, move through food chains, accumulating in higher trophic levels.
As they move through food chains, harmful substances increase in concentration, causing greater harm to organisms at higher trophic levels.