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1) How does being hydrophobic or hydrophilic affect theproduction and release, transport, and action or a hormone?
2) Is thyroxine hydrophilic or hydrophobic? How is thatrelated to whether or not Amy could take it orally instead ofinjection.

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1 The hormones are two typessteroid or hydrophobic hormones and non steroid or hydrophilic hormones The steroid hormones are derived from cholesterol and the non steroid hormones are like amines peptides polypeptides and proteins or glycoproteins that are derived from amino acids The steroid or hydrophobic hormones are lipid soluble and can enter in any cell in the body but only the respective target cells respond to their activity The lipid soluble steroid hormone molecules diffuse through the plasma membrane They bind at a specific    See Answer
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