Endocrine Anatomy

Question 1

What type of hormone is made of proteins?

Answer 1

Amino acids

Question 2

What type of hormone is made of cholesterol?

Answer 2

Steroids

Question 3

What part of the adrenal gland secretes steroids?

Answer 3

Adrenal cortex

Question 4

What are the three types of steroids?

Answer 4

Mineralocorticoids, Glucocorticoids, and Sex Steroids

Question 5

What type of hormones are made of lipids?

Answer 5

Prostaglandins

Question 6

What are three types of stimulus that release hormones?

Answer 6

Hormonal, Humoral, and Neural

Question 7

What stimulus involves a hormone that triggers the release of another hormone?

Answer 7

Hormonal

Question 8

What stimulus involves changes in the blood level?

Answer 8

Humoral

Question 9

What stimulus involves release of hormones due to electrical signals?

Answer 9

Neural

Question 10

What part of the pituitary gland only releases hormones from the hypothalamus?

Answer 10

Posterior

Question 11

What are the hormones secreted by the posterior pituitary gland?

Answer 11

ADH and Oxytocin

Question 12

What are the hormones created and secreted by the anterior pituitary gland?

Answer 12

1. Growth Hormone
2. Prolactin
3. FSH
4. LH
5. ACTH
6. TSH

Question 13

What hormone is responsible for maturation of egg cells and spermatogenesis?

Answer 13

FSH

Question 14

What hormone is responsible for the testosterone and corpus luteum?

Answer 14

LH

Question 15

What hormone is responsible for the development of skeletal muscles and long bones?

Answer 15

Growth Hormone