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Lesson: Chapter 1 — The Chemical Basis of Life

1.3. Lipids 9 of 11

Question 9

Which hormones need lipids for their synthesis?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Oestrogen, testosterone and cortisone — some of the hormones of vertebrates are built with lipids.

Insulin and growth hormone are proteins, not lipids. Amylase and pepsin are not hormones at all — they are enzymes, and they are proteins too.

Answer the question to continue.