Describe the consumptive use value of biodiversity as food, drugs and medicines, fuel and fibre with suitable examples.
Describe the consumptive use value of biodiversity as food, drugs and medicines, fuel and fibre with suitable examples.

Biodiversity offers a wide range of goods from agricultural crops to trees and events where exact value and cost can be provided.

1. Food: A large number of wild plants are eaten by humans as 90% of the food plants have been bred from tropical wildlife such as Chenopodium (bathua) Melilotus Alva (sangria).

2. Medicine and Drugs: A wonderful drug, penicillin is used as an antibiotic is found in a fungus called penicillium.

3. Fuel: Mineral fuels such as coal, petrol and natural gas are all biological products.