Q.How does DDT affects Birds eggs?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →DDT is a persistent, fat-soluble pesticide that biomagnifies up the food chain into predatory/fish-eating birds, where it interferes with calcium deposition in the eggshell gland, producing abnormally thin-shelled eggs that break before the chick can hatch.
DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) is a chlorinated pesticide that does not break down easily in the environment. Because it is fat-soluble, it accumulates in the fatty tissues of organisms and becomes progressively more concentrated at each higher trophic level of a food chain (biomagnification) — so birds at the top of food chains (e.g., birds of prey, fish-eating birds) end up with especially high DDT levels in their bodies.
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