Quiz with correct answers
What are the 3 classes of hormones? - correct answer ✔✔ Peptide, steroid, amine
What is the major hormone class? - correct answer ✔✔ Steroid hormones
What does anterior pituitary do? - correct answer ✔✔ makes and releases hormones under
regulation of the hypothalamus
What does posterior pituitary do? - correct answer ✔✔ stores and secretes hormones that are
made in the hypothalamus
What are proteins synthesized as? - correct answer ✔✔ polypeptides
Cortisol is produced in what organ? - correct answer ✔✔ Adrenal glands (suprarenal glands)
What is the precursor for cortisol? - correct answer ✔✔ cholesterol
Vasopressin is made in the posterior pituitary T/F? - correct answer ✔✔ False
What two hormones are released by the posterior pituitary? - correct answer ✔✔ ADH and
Oxytocin
Cortisol cannot pass through plasma membrane T/F? - correct answer ✔✔ True