Question

Among the phenol and pentachlorophenol, which chemical is highly accumulated in biota? Also please explain why.

Answer 1

Answer:

Phenol is both a synthetically and naturally produced aromatic compound. Phenol is used to make plastics. Phenol is also used as a disinfectant in household cleaning products and in consumer products such as mouthwash,s  gargles, throat sprays. Microorganisms capable of degrading phenol are common and include both aerobes and anaerobes. Chlorophenols are environmental pollutants introduced into the environment as a result of chemical and pharmaceutical industry activities.chlorophenols have become quantitatively significant pollutants in the environment and their treatment, disposal, and general management have become a serious challenge the environment and health sectors. The diversity, versatility, adaptability, and metabolic potentials of a number of microbes have been harnessed and applied in bioremediation of environmental contaminants. The transformation of chlorophenols, in particular, could lead to an increase in toxicity of intermediate compounds or end products due to the formation of electrophilic metabolites that may bind and damage DNA or gene products. The noxious influence of chlorophenols and their derivatives on the ecobiota may lead to acute toxicity, histopathological changes, mutagenicity, and cancer. chlorophenolic compounds in the environment with special emphasis on their adverse effects on the ecobiota.so from the above explanation it's clear that pentachlorophenol is more accumulated in the biota than phenols.