Question

What is the difference between hormones and vitamins?

Answer 1

Hey dear...

Vitamins

1) It is carried in the food.
2) It is used up during the process.
3) It is obtained from food
4) .It may be organic acid, amide, amine, ester, alcohol or steroid.
5) It act as coenzyme.
6) Its deficiency causes deficiency diseases.

Hormone :

1. is carried by the food.
2. is consumed during the metabolic process.
3. is produced by an endocrine gland.
4. is a glycoprotein, steroid or polypeptide.
5. act as a stimulating substance.
6.Its excess as well deficiency causes many hormonal
disorders and diseases

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Answer 2

Vitamin:

1. Vitamins are synthesized in plants and taken by animals cheifle through diet.

2. Chemically these are various compounds like esters, organic acids, etc.

3. Mostly these are coenzymes or a constituents of coenzymes.

4. Vitamins have catalyc action.

5. Their deficiency causes specific deficiency disease(symptom).

Hormone:

1. Hormones are secreted mostly by endrocrine glands and some by neurosecretory cells of animals.

2. These are water soluble amino acids and polypeptides or fat soluble steroids.

3. Mostly these are excitatory, sometimes inhibitory but never act as coenzyme.

4. Hormones directly influence gene expressions.

5. Deficiency causes metabolic disorder.

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