Answer 1:
There are a couple of ways flowers could
influence human respiration at night. One way is
if the person is allergic to the flower. This
could give them a night of stuffiness and
snoring. If the flowers were relaxing to a
person, his or her respiration rate might be
slower. You might be thinking that flowers
produce oxygen in photosynthesis, so that would
change the person's respiration. However, when
there is little light available, flowers won't be
doing photosynthesis. They'll be doing "cellular
respiration" like us. They'll be taking in oxygen
and giving off CO2 as they burn off the
sugar they made and stored when it was light.
Either way, there's usually plenty of oxygen
around, so that it wouldn't make much difference
whether you had a live plant in the room or
not. Do you think that a cut flower still
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