Hair provides an excellent approach for examining physiological responses to food resource shortages as it can be chemically analysed to determine the steroid hormone levels. Some researchers suggested to use testosterone and progesterone levels in the hair follicles to study nutritional profile and population-level reproductive activity in bears. In this part, you have to give a brief introduction of hormonal system. Also, address the following questions: (i) How are steroid hormones incorporated into growing hair? (ii) What are the functions of testosterone and progesterone?
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Hair provides an excellent approach for examining physiological responses. Food and hormone changes can be chemically analyzed to determine the steroid hormone levels. Some researchers suggested using testosterone and progesterone levels in the hair follicles to study nutritional profiles and population-level reproductive activity in humans. In this paper, you have to give a brief introduction to the hormonal system. Also, address the following questions: - How are steroid hormones incorporated into growing hair? - What are the functions of testosterone and progesterone?
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Hair analysis may be used to determine all of the following except. O an assessment of nutritional deficiencies O a history of the use of drugs and other toxins where the hair originated, human or other animal O presence of heavy metals O hair analysis is helpful to determine all of the above
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