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Name the male hormone responsible for the development of secondary sexual characteristics.


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Secondary sexual characteristics:

  1. Secondary sexual characteristics are the physical features that appear during puberty, such as the appearance of facial hair, chest hair, deepening of the voice in males, etc.
  2. The hormone responsible for developing secondary sexual characteristics in males is testosterone.
  3. It is synthesized and released from the testes.

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