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KEY TERMS AND DEFINATIONS
Bioremediation: Bioremediation is the use of living organisms such as microbes and plants for mitigation and wherever possible, complete elimination of the noxious effects caused by environmental pollutants.

Biodegradation: Biodegradation is a natural process, where the degradation of a xenobiotic chemical or pesticide by an organism is primarily a strategy for their own survival.

Biosorption: Biosorption is a physiochemical process that occurs naturally in certain biomass which allows it to passively concentrate and bind contaminants onto its cellular structure.

Bioavailability: The fraction of contaminant actually available to microorganisms is said to be bioavailable.

Environmental Pollution: Introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse effects on living organisms and ecosystems.

Ecological Restoration: Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.

Heavy metals: A heavy metal is a metallic element which has high density, specific gravity or atomic weight and usually toxic in nature.

Metabolic degradation: Metabolic biodegradation of the organic pollutants is carried out by the soil microbial populations harbouring specific catabolic enzymes leading to the complete mineralization of target compound.

Co-metabolism: The co-metabolic degradation corresponds to the non specific degradation of xenobiotic molecule by microorganisms.

Phytoremediation: Phytoremediation is the process of removing/eliminating inorganic toxic metals and organic compounds using plants and trees from contaminated environment.

Phytovolatilization: contaminants taken up by the roots pass through the plants to the leaves and are volatized through stomata, where gas exchange occurs.

Phytostabilization: plants are used to reduce the mobility and bioavailability of environmental pollutants.

Phytoextraction: plant roots take up contaminants and store them in stems and leaves

Xenobiotics: A synthetic organic compound such as drug, pesticide, or carcinogen that is foreign to a living organism is called xenobiotic compounds.

Lower Metabolic Pathway: The organic pollutant degradation pathway involving cleavage of the aromatic ring structure is called lower metabolic pathway.

Upper Metabolic Pathway: The organic pollutant degradation pathway leading to formation of some key intermediates/secondary product is called upper metabolic pathway.

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