{"id":120158,"date":"2022-05-09T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=120158"},"modified":"2022-05-09T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:22:47","slug":"ddt-was-sprayed-in-a-lake-to-regulate-breeding-of-mosquitoes-how-would-it-affect-the-trophic-levels-in-the-following-food-chain-associated-with-a-lake-justify-your-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/ddt-was-sprayed-in-a-lake-to-regulate-breeding-of-mosquitoes-how-would-it-affect-the-trophic-levels-in-the-following-food-chain-associated-with-a-lake-justify-your-answer","title":{"rendered":"DDT was sprayed in a lake to regulate breeding of mosquitoes. How would it affect the trophic levels in the following food chain associated with a lake? Justify your answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>7 DDT was sprayed in a lake to regulate breeding of mosquitoes. How would it affect the trophic levels in the following food chain associated with a lake? Justify your answer.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120060 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/5-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/5-21.png 163w, https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/2022\/05\/5-21-150x138.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Ans : \u25cf DDT being a non- biodegradable pesticide will enter the food chain from the first trophic level i.e Plankton.<br \/>\n\u25cf Non \u2013 biodegradable pesticides accumulate progressively at each trophic level. This phenomenon is known as biological magnification.<br \/>\n\u25cf HAWK will have the highest level of pesticide.<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 DDT was sprayed in a lake to regulate breeding of mosquitoes. How would it affect the trophic levels in the following food chain associated with a lake? Justify your answer. Ans : \u25cf DDT being a non- biodegradable pesticide will enter the food chain from the first trophic level i.e Plankton. \u25cf Non \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":120050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-120158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120170,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120158\/revisions\/120170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}