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State properties of hormones.
Enlist any two properties of hormones.
Short Answer
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Solution
- They act as chemical messengers and are effective in very low concentration.
- Hormones can function as regulators that inhibit or stimulate or modify specific processess.
- Some hormones interact with receptors present on plasma membrane of target cells where as some enter the nucleus to interact with genes.
- Hypersecretion or Hyposecretion of hormones leads to various disorders.
- These are metabolised after their function. Thus cannot be reused.
- Hormone secretion is regulated by positive or negative feedback mechanism.
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