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Q: Why is carbon dioxide a stimulus for breathing?
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Is rising carbon dioxide levels a stimulus for breathing?

yes rising CO2 level a stimulus to breathing infact respiration regulatory centers are apparantly insensitive to O2 concentration The sensitive tissue located in carotid artery, carotid labyrinth detects increased CO2 concentration and stmulates respiratory centers to induce breathing.


What process is breathing carbon dioxide?

Respiration. We breathe in oxygen, and return carbon dioxide to the air.


How does carbon dioxide behave like a toxic gas?

Carbon dioxide is not toxic but it is not a breathing gas, it is asphyxiant.


When the level in carbon dioxide in the blood increases the?

If the level of carbon dioxide increases, the repiratory centers are signaled to increase the rate and depth of breathing. This will result in the return of normal CO2 (carbon dioxide) and slows the breathing rate.


Do we give off carbon dioxide?

Only if you are breathing.

Related questions

The most powerful respiratory stimulus for breathing in a healthy person is?

increase of carbon dioxide in the tissues and the bloodstream


The primary chemical stimulus used to control breathing is changes in the concentration of?

CO2 -- carbon dioxide


What process is breathing out carbon dioxide part of?

Respiration is breathing in and absorbing oxygen, and breathing out carbon dioxide.


What is the most important chemical stimuli leading to increased rate of breath?

An increase in carbon dioxide in the blood is the most important chemical stimulus to cause breathing, even more than oxygen concentration.


What would happen if you kept on breathing in carbon dioxide?

There is carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. You have been breathing it in all your life.


Breathing out carbon dioxide is an example of a life process?

an excretion is an example of breathing out Co2


What is the primary stimulus to breathe?

carbon dioxide (CO2)


What main stimulus regulates respiration?

Carbon dioxide.


What causes carbon dioxide?

fossil fuels and breathing causes carbon dioxide :)


What type of process is breathing'?

respitatory, taking oxygen in...and breathing carbon dioxide out. carbon dioxide=Co2 and oxygen = O


Is carbon dioxide a fat?

No, it's a gas. When you breathe out, you're breathing out carbon dioxide.


What are some health and environmental hazards of carbon dioxide?

There are no health hazards from breathing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but breathing pure carbon dioxide will kill you. The environmental hazard from carbon dioxide is that it is one of the greenhouse gases that is causing global warming.