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Agriculture · Q285

Agricultural Entomology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 285

Q285

The higher LD50 value indicates the following

A.
Neutral
B.
Less toxic
Answer
C.
Highly toxic
D.
None of these

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The higher LD50 value indicates the following is less toxic.
The LD50 gives a measure of the immediate or acute toxicity of a chemical in the strain, sex, and age group of a particular animal species being tested.
The larger the LD50 value, the lower the toxicity and vice versa.