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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.