Changes during Puberty?
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At puberty there is a massive surge in sex hormones which cause breasts/periods/ovulation in female and penile/testicular and sperm production in the male.
These changes are produced by chemical messengers(called hormones).
The master controller is produced in the pituitary gland at the underside of the brain-which sets everything off.
Those who stay exactly the same as a child even when an adult are due to a failure of the pituitary gland to produce the relevant hormones. One of these is Growth hormone so they stay at the height of a child-So called pituitary dwarfs .
Other hormones are not produced so they do not have breast /penile changes at puberty as expected
because of they DNA
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