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What is a hormone that causes a girl's secondary sex characteristics?
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estrogen
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What type of hormone causes changes in girls?
Estrogen
What sex characteristics cause girls to look like women and boys to look like men?
The development of secondary sex characteristics (for example, breasts in females and facial hair in males) causes girls to look like women and boys to look like men.
What are the purposes of estrogen?
Girls need estrogen as it is a female hormone. It produces your characteristics and feminine personality.
What causes breast in girls?
It's part of your genetic makeup. And also has to do with hormonal levels, particularly oestrogen, which is involved in the development of secondary female sexual characteristics (breasts, shape of hip etc).
Do hormones determine the secondary sex characteristics?
Primary sexual characteristics are those which enable a person to become capable of having children, which in girls would be menstruation and in boys the production of sperm. All other physical changes, such as growth of pubic heair and breasts etc are secondary characterists. All these changes are directly initiated and stimulated by the two hormones that you have mentioned.
What are the general functions of estrogen during puberty?
The estrogen is the main hormone responsible for puberty in girls. It makes the girls fertile and causes increase in breast sizes.
The main hormone causing changes in girls is called?
The main hormone causing puberty in girls is Estrogen.
When do females develop secondary sexual characteristics?
Girls start developing breasts with the onset of puberty usually between the ages of 12 and 14.
What hormones drives development of secondary sexual characteristics?
In boys, it is primarily testosterone, in girls it is a mainly a combination of progesterone and estrogen.
What is the hormone in girls called?
Which hormone in girls? If it's the one that girls and only girls have, than it's estrogen. Research estrogen to find out what it provides for your body. Or ask mummy. :0)
When was Mentone Girls' Secondary College created?
Mentone Girls' Secondary College was created in 1955.
When was Koidu Girls Secondary School created?
Koidu Girls Secondary School was created in 1952.
