Hormones

Question 1

What is the pituitary gland?

Answer 1

• secretes hormones

Question 2

What is the pineal gland?

Answer 2

• secretes melatonin
• regulating body rhythms

Question 3

what is the thyroid gland?

Answer 3

• secretes thyroxin
• affects body metabolism

Question 4

what is the pancreas?

Answer 4

• secretes insulin and glucagon
• controls blood sugar levels

Question 5

what is the adrenal glands?

Answer 5

• secretes corticosteriods
• involved in muscle development

Question 6

what is Gonads?

Answer 6

• secretes androgens
• involved in masculine characteristics
• regulate menstrual cycle

Question 7

what are hormones?

Answer 7

chemical messengers released from endocrine glands

Question 8

Hormones compared to neurotransmitters - hormones part?

Answer 8

• Hormones take message over larger distances and over a longer period of time
• Hormones can travel anywhere in the circulatory system, whereas neurotransmitters are restricted to their appropriate neurons

Question 9

Hormones compared to neurotransmitters - neutransmitters part?

Answer 9

• neurotransmitters signals travel very quickly whereas hormones travel more slowly
• neutransmitter signalling is all or nothing, hormones messages can vary in intensity depending on the amount of hormone

Question 10

give two types of hormones?

Answer 10

-testosterone
- cortisol

Question 11

what does testosterone do?

Answer 11

• produced by males in the testes
• affects sexual reproduction
• affects + influences the male sex drives

Question 12

what does cortisol do?

Answer 12

• triggered by physical or psychological stress
• function is to prepare the body for action is response to stress