Biomagnification occurs because toxic chemicals accumulate in organisms at higher trophic levels, as predators consume multiple prey over their lifetime, resulting in increasingly lower concentrations of these substances in top predators.

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🧪➡️🥩 Toxic chemicals are fat-soluble and hard to remove from bodies
💾 These chemicals get stored in fatty tissues and stay there
🦊🍽️🐰🐰🐰 Predators eat many prey, collecting all stored toxins
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Answer 1

The statement you provided is actually False.

Biomagnification refers to how toxic substances accumulate in organisms at higher trophic levels, leading to higher concentrations in top predators. However, the last part of your statement incorrectly states that top predators have "increasingly lower concentrations of these substances." In reality, top predators have higher concentrations of these substances due to their position in the food chain, as they consume multiple prey that have already accumulated the toxins.

So, the correct responses to your statement would be:

False.