KROK 1 2023 – Question 47 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A person entered a room with increased levels of carbon dioxide in the air. How will the breathing of this person change?
- A. Respiration rate and depth will increase
- B. Respiration depth will decrease
- C. Respiration rate will decrease
- D. Respiration depth will increase
- E. Respiration rate will increase
Hint
Consider how central and peripheral chemoreceptors respond to rising CO₂ and what they do to both the frequency and the depth of breaths.
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