By the process called ____, an organism's tissues store a pollutant taken up from the environment, causing the amount in the body to increase over time.

A) pollutant fixation
B) biological magnification
C) chemical buildup
D) acidification
E) bioaccumulation

Biological Magnification

The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in each successive link in the food chain.

Bioaccumulation

The concentration of a chemical pollutant in the tissues of an organism rises over the course of the organism’s lifetime.