DDT and biological magnification

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Many options are available where chemistry contributes to agriculture, and more specifically, to production of field crops. Most notably is the development and use of chemical pesticides for control of harmfiil weeds, insects and diseases. Unfortunately, a few pesticides contribute to adverse enviromnental and human health effects and promote an adverse public view of pesticides in general. DDT is the quintessential exanqrle of a beneficial insecticide, which saved many hiunan lives by killing insects such as mosquitoes, lice and fleas that transmit serious human diseases like malaria, typhus (19), but was also contributed to enviromnental contamination because of the phenomenon known as biological magnification in the food chain. Without delving into a specific... 

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