Compare and contrast stress hormones with sex hormones. provide an example of each type.

Besides their functions, one helps the development of sexual characters and the maduration of gametes, and the other is used during stressful situations to promote self-preservation, stress hormones act quicker than sex hormones. Also, all sex hormones are steroid hormones (meaning they are composed of a 4-carbon-cycles core), while stress hormones have only one steroid hormone, the others being catecholamines (a mono amine with an aromatic cycle). Some stress hormones are also used as neurotransmitters on the body.

Sex hormones: testosterone, estriol, progesterone
Stress hormones: adrenaline, noradrenaline, cortisol

Besides their functions, one helps the development of sexual characters and the maduration of gametes, and the other is used during stressful situations to promote self-preservation, stress hormones act quicker than sex hormones. Also, all sex hormones are steroid hormones (meaning they are composed of a 4-carbon-cycles core), while stress hormones have only one steroid hormone, the others being catecholamines (a mono amine with an aromatic cycle). Some stress hormones are also used as neurotransmitters on the body.Sex hormones: testosterone, estriol, progesteroneStress hormones: adrenaline, noradrenaline, cortisol

Explanation:

Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, controlling virtually every reaction within as well as providing structure and serving as signals to other cells. proteins are long chains of  amino acids  , and the exact sequence of the amino acids determines the final structure and function of the protein. instructions for that sequence are encoded in  genes  . to make a particular protein, a messenger ribonucleic acid (mrna) copy is made from the gene (in the process called  transcription  ), and the mrna is transported to the  ribosome  . protein synthesis, also called  translation  , begins when the two ribosomal subunits link onto the mrna. this step, called initiation, is followed by elongation, in which successive amino acids are added to the growing chain, brought in by transfer rnas (trnas). in this step, the ribosome reads the  nucleotides  of mrna three by three, in units called  codons  , and matches each to three nucleotides on the trna, called the anticodon. finally, during termination, the ribosome unbinds from the mrna, and the  amino acid  chain goes on to be processed and folded to make the final, functional protein