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| Antidiuretic hormone (ADH) |
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| secreted from the posterior pituitory gland; promotes retention of water by kidneys |
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| secreted by the anterior pituitory; stimulates milk production and secretion |
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| Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ATCH) |
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| secreted by the anterior pituitory gland; stimulates adrenal cortex to secrete glucocorticoids |
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| secreted by the thyroid gland; lowers blood calcium level; antagonistic to parathyroid hormone (PTH) |
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| Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) |
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| secreted from the anterior pituitory gland; stimulates thyroid gland |
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| Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) |
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| secreted by the anterior pituitory gland; stimulates production of ova and sperm |
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| secreted by the anterior pituitory gland; stimulates ovaries and sperm |
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| occurs in childhood; when the child grow abnormaly large but are normaly proportioned. It is caused by hypersecretion of the growth hormone |
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| a hormone produced by the adrenal medulla; a neurotransmitter produced by some nerve cells; adrenaline. fight or flight reaction (blood goes to the area needed when someone gets scared, stressed, angered, or pained) |
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| an axcitatory neurotransmitter; noradrenaline |
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| plant hormone: gibberellins |
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| hormones that affect plant growth and the development of fruits and seeds |
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| an organic compound that stimulates flowering in some plants and hastens the ripening of fruit |
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| plant hormone: abscisic acid |
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| an organic compound that influences the chedding of leaves and the seasonal slowing down of plant activities |
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| the hormones that affect the growth of all types of plant tissues |
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| plant hormone: cytokinins |
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| a type of plant hormone that stimulates cell division and growth |
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| plant hormone: phototropism |
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| the growth of a plant in response to the stimulus of light; the stem of the plant grows toward light or away from it |
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| plant hormone: hydrotropism |
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| growth of plant roots toward water |
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| plant hormone: geotropism |
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| the growth of a plant in respone to the stimulus of gravity; toots of a plant generally grow down in the direction of the ggravity force |
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| plant hormone: thigmotropism |
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| growth of a plant in response to the stimulus of touch, as when tendrils of a grapevine wind temperature kills fish and other organisms |
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