Bioaccumulation is the ________

A) process by which chemicals are stored and concentrated in the tissues of living organisms
B) total amount of chemicals stored in the tissues of living organisms
C) chemical change that occurs when substances are altered by the sun or metabolized by microorganisms
D) increase in a pollutant's concentration as it moves up a food chain


A

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