Question

State properties of hormones.

Enlist any two properties of hormones.

Answer 1

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