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A person experiencing an acute asthma attack begins to hyperventilate.
How will this change in breathing pattern affect the patient's blood pH and why?
- PH will fall because the lungs are losing oxygen.
- PH will remain constant because the bicarbonate buffer system prevents all changes.
- PH will fall because carbonic acid levels are increasing.
- PH will rise because CO_2 is being exhaled faster than it is produced.
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