Tolerance and Stress in a Polluted EnvironmentThe case of the mummichog

There appear to be costs of embryonic resistance to pollutants opulations of organisms that have been chronically exposed to chemical pollutants may develop increased tolerance, or resistance, to those toxicants. Tolerance may result from genetic adaptation or physiological acclimation to the polluted environment. Although some researchers say that the term resistance should be applied only to genetic adaptation and tolerance to physiological acclimation, other investigators have defined the terms in other ways. Many workers have used the words interchangeably, as we do in this article.

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