Is Biosorption a Bioaccumulation?

Biosorption is metabolically passive process and is performed by material of biological origin, not by living biomass. Bioaccumulation is metabolically active and is performed by living cells.

What is the difference between biosorption and bioaccumulation?

Bioaccumulation is the net accumulation of a substance into the tissues of a living organism as result of uptake from all sources (diet and ambient medium) while biosorption is the ability of certain dead biomass to bind and concentrate some substances in them.

What do you mean by biosorption?

Biosorption is defined as “ability of biological materials to accumulate heavy metals from wastewater through metabolically mediated (by the use of ATP) or spontaneous physicochemical pathways of uptake (not at the cost of ATP), or as a property of certain types of inactive, non-living microbial biomass which bind and ...