A nurse is teaching a health class for girls at the local high school and explains the primary goal of sex hormones is what?
A) To develop the body's reproductive system
B) To prepare the body for pregnancy
C) To initiate the body's change into puberty
D) To deepen the voice and promote facial hair growth
B
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Each ovum is contained in a storage site called a follicle. The follicles act as endocrine glands producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone. The primary goal of these hormones is to prepare the body for pregnancy and to maintain the pregnancy until delivery. Although secretion of these hormones develops the body's reproductive system and initiates the change into puberty, these occur to prepare the body for pregnancy, the primary goal of the hormones. Development of facial hair and deepening of the voice is seen in men as a result of testosterone.
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