The Hormone Progesterone

question 144

Multiple Choice

The hormone progesterone

• A) is produced by the corpus luteum.
• B) causes the development of the secondary sex characteristics.
• C) is responsible for the development of the female body contours.
• D) All of the above are true of progesterone.

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Definitions:

P-value

A measure in statistics that helps to determine the significance of results derived from a hypothesis test.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true; a threshold for determining statistical significance, usually denoted by alpha (α).

Null Hypothesis

In statistics, a hypothesis that there is no significant difference or association between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.

Mean Weight

The average mass of an object or collection of objects, obtained by adding their weights together and dividing by the number of objects.