What is the human relevance of gymnosperms?

Answer 1

Human and Ecological Relevance of Conifers

1. Pine trees-"many parts are edible"

• bark and seeds

2. Masts of sailing vessels (eastern white pine)

3. Turpentine and rosin

• naval stores, caulking and sealing wooden sailing ships

4. Amber

• fossilized resins with entrapped insects

5. Pulpwood

• major source is white spruce

6. Soundboards of Musical Instruments (violins, etc.)

7. Douglas fir

• lumber

8. Arborvitae

• ornamentals

9. Juniper berries

• used to flavor gin

10. Pacific yew

• taxol, a drug with anticancer properties, obtained from bark

11. Conifers are used for Crates, Boxes, Matchsticks, Furniture, and Telephone poles Human and Ecological Relevance or Other Gymnosperms

1. Arrowroot starch (from cycads)

2. Ginkgo

a. Seeds edible

b. Leaf extracts improve blood supply to brain and lungs

3. Mormon tea

• from Ephedra leaves

4. Ephedrine drug

• from Chinese Ephedra

5. Gnetum rope (used in Java)

• from bark fibers

Answer 2

—Gymnosperms take in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and releases Oxygen (O).—The paper we write on and the wood we use to build with comes from conifers. Turpentine and rosin is made from the conifer's sap.—Fibers in clothing and cellophane wrappers also come from conifers.—Large, Managed forests have been made to balance how many conifers are left and how many we cut down.

Answer 3

Gymnoperms are responsible for lumber and paper. Angiosperms are responsible for fruit and the more expensive lumber.

Answer 4

Angiosperms and gymnosperms are the two types of trees. I hope u know how trees are important. They provide food shelter ect. To many living things

Answer 5

they are ornamentel plants.

Answer 6

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