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"Energy flow in food chains is always unidirectional". Justify this statement. Explain how the pesticides enter a food chain and subsequently get into our body.

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(i) In a food chain the energy moves progressively through the various trophic levels and is no longer available to the organisms of the previous trophic level/energy captured by the autotrophs does not revert back to the solar input.

(ii) Pesticides used for crop protection when washed away/down into the soil/ water bodies absorbed by

(iii)On consumption they enter our food chain and being non-biodegradable, these chemicals get accumulated progressively and enter our body.

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