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Which hormone is mainly responsible for the development and maintenance of female secondary sexual characteristics?
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estrogen
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What are the functions of estrogen?
Any of several steroid hormones produced chiefly by the ovaries and responsible for promoting estrus and the development and maintenance of female secondary sex characteristics.
Does progesterone secretion stimulate development of female secondary sex characteristics?
No, estrogen is responsible for female development of secondary sex charechteristics.
The androgen responsible for sperm development and the male secondary sex characteristics?
The answer is testosterone.
What is a testosterone?
A white crystalline steroid hormone, C19H28O2, produced primarily in the testes and responsible for the development and maintenance of male secondary sex characteristics. It is also produced synthetically for use in medical treatment.
What is testoserone?
a male steroid hormone produced in the testicles and responsible for the development of secondary sex characteristics.
What is the hormones is responsible for the development of secondary sexual characteristics of females?
estrogen= female testosterome=male
What is the hormone responsible for the development and maintenance of female secondary sexual characteristic?
There are two hormones. For males it is testosterone and for females it is mainly estrogen.
What is the male development secondary characteristics stimulated by?
The most prominent hormone involved in secondary sex characteristics for a male is testosterone.
What is is responsible for the development of male characteristics including muscle mass and stregth fat distribution bone mass and the sex drive?
The hormone testosterone is responsible for male secondary characteristics. Male primary characteristics were triggered before birth by several genes on the Y chromosome.
What is the androgen that is necessary for sperm formation and for development of the male secondary characteristics?
Androgenes: male hormone that stimulates the development of the male sexual secondary characteristics. Testorones are the primary stimulates.
What are progesterone and testosterone?
These are the major sex hormones. Progesterone is a 21-carbon steroid female sex hormone, secreted largely by the corpus luteum and is required for the maintenance of pregnancy. On the other hand, Testosterone is a steroid male sex hormone, secreted by the testes and is responsible for the development of secondary male characteristics.
What hormones is responsible for both primary and secondary sex characteristics in males?
Testosterone
