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What are chemicals controlled by hormones |
Endocrine system |
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What do glands do |
Secrete hormones into the bloodstream |
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What are hormones carried through |
Bloood |
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What does the nervous system use to travel down neurones |
Electrical impulses |
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Endocrine system uses .... |
Hormones , chemicals carried down the bloodstream |
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Pancreas |
Controls concentration of glucose in blood |
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Ovaries and testes |
Release hormones involved in puberty and reproduction |
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Thyroid gland |
Produces hormones in growth and regulating body's basal metabolic rate |
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Pituitary gland/master gland |
Release different hormones into the blood depending on conditions( react on other glands causes hormones to be released) |
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Adrenal glands |
Release the hormone adrenaline (fear and stress is when it's produced) |
