"kevin" wrote
:
: I have been asked this question by PM:
:
: I'm in a science project measuring the consumption rate of oxygen at
: night by a fern with gibberellic acid and without, and I have a major
: gap in the focus of this project.
:
: Why would someone want to know how much oxygen a plant consumes at
: night? What are possible applications for this information?

Oxygen consumption is one metric of the metabolic rate, particularly in food
consumption. Gibberellic acid is a hormone involved in the development of
plants. Such an experiment is exactly what you might consider as a first
measure of the influence of gibberellic acid in increasing growth rate
during the dark hours.

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