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Fertilisers and Pesticides

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In addition to wheat plants, a crop field ecosystem has organisms such as snake, peacock, eagle and mice. If the wheat plants are sprayed with pesticides periodically, which of the following will have the minimum concentration of pesticides in the body?
(a) snake
(b) eagle
(c) mice
(d) peacock

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Solution

(c) mice

As mice are in the lowest trophic level, they will have the minimum concentration of pesticides in their body.

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