Chapter 7, Problem 1ITD

Summary Introduction

To review:

The effect of temperature on respiration rate of a plant leaf of sagebrush by constructing its graph.

The following data collected from the leaf of plant sagebrush show that the respiration rate varies with temperature as the leaves are heated and cooled during measurements.

Introduction:

CO ${}_2$ concentration in the atmosphere is increasing day by day, although in potentially small quantity, due to fossil fuel combustion and respiration. Sagebrush is a plant from a semiarid ecosystem. The rate of CO ${}_2$ exchange is measured in a closed chamber.