Question

6) What are economical importance of bryophytes.
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Answer 1

• Some mosses provide food for herbaceous mammals and birds.

• Since mosses form dense mats on the soil they prevent soil erosion.

• The species of sphagnum which is a Moss provide peat. It is usually used as a fuel.

• The sphagnum has a good water holding capacity and is also used as a packaging material for trans shipment of of living materials.

• They are also said to be ecologically important because mosses along with lichens decompose rocks.

• The decomposition helps in making of substrate which is used by higher plants for their growth.

Answer 2

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❒ The Economic importance of Bryophytes:

• Used as food for animals.
• Species of Sphagrum provide peat (a form of coal) which is used as a fuel.
• They have capacity of holding water, so they are used as a packing material.
• Mosses and lichens are decomposers. They decompose the rocks and dead matter forming sub stratum which helps in the growth of higher plants.
• Mosses covers the soil and exposed parts and attracts the rain. This is the most significant economic importance of bryophytes.
• They prevent soil erosion.
• Lichens and some other bryophytes are used as pollution indicator.

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❒ Let's know more about Bryophtes:-

• They include mosses and liverworts, horseworts.
• They are the amphibians of the plant kingdom. They live in soil but need water for reproduction.
• Plant body is known as Thallus which is attached to a substratum by rhizoids.
• Main body is gametophyte and have archaegonia and antheridia, female and Male reproductive system respectively.
• The antherozoids fuse with egg to form zygote and then they grow into sporophyte that releases spores.

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