What is the full form of POPs?

APersistent Organic Pollutants ✓ Correct

BPersistent Oxygenated Pollutants

CPolycyclic Organic Pollutants

DPolymerised Organic Pollutants

Correct answer: (A) Persistent Organic Pollutants

Explanation

POPs stands for Persistent Organic Pollutants, toxic chemicals that resist breaking down in nature.

They persist for years, travel long distances and build up in the fatty tissue of living things.

Persistent Oxygenated Pollutants is not the recognised expansion of the term.

Polycyclic Organic Pollutants wrongly narrows the term to ring-shaped compounds only.

Polymerised Organic Pollutants is not a correct reading of the abbreviation.

The Stockholm Convention of 2001 restricts POPs such as DDT and dioxins worldwide.

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