puberty changes in girls and boys
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• Changes at Puberty
• During puberty sudden increase in height takes place. This happens due to elongation of
long bones of legs and arms that make a person tall.
• Girls grow faster than boys by about 18 years of age, both reach their maximum height. The
rate of growth in height varies in different individual. Height of an individual (male or female)
depends on the genes inherited from parents. However, right kind of food during growing years
is also essential.
• Boys develop larger voice boxes (Larynx) to form a protruding part of throat called Adam�s
Apple. Boys have deep voice.
In Girls, larynx is hardly visible (Adam�s apple not visible). They have pitched voice.
• Change in Body Shape: In boys, at the age of puberty, shoulders generally brooden as a res