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← ScienceWhich outcome occurs when inhibiting carbonic anhydrase in the lungs?
A)Decreased carbon dioxide exhalation✓
B)Increased chloride ion concentration
C)Elevated blood pH from bicarbonate loss
D)Enhanced oxygen binding to hemoglobin
💡 Explanation
When carbonic anhydrase is inhibited, the hydration of carbon dioxide to form carbonic acid slows down, reducing the amount of carbon dioxide converted to bicarbonate, impeding the equilibrium shift towards exhalation. Therefore decreased carbon dioxide exhalation in the lungs results, rather than alternative changes, that depend on normal carbonic anhydrase activity.
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