A researcher is studying the function of a peptide hormone in rabbits and humans. She notices that this hormone has a different effect in these two mammals, despite the hormone receptor having the same sequence (and structure) in both animals

What accounts for this
difference in hormone function?
What will be an ideal response?


sequence differences in components of the associated second messenger pathway
sequence differences in the hormone's target genes

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