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"juvenile hormone" refers to a special kind of hormone found in insects. It helps control their growth and development, particularly in their early stages of life. This hormone tells the insect when to stay as a juvenile (young) or to transform into an adult. So, it basically influences the different stages of an insect's life cycle.
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«juvenile»
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Sentences with «juvenile hormone»
- It seems that begging behaviour is at least partly hormonal: larvae with increased levels of juvenile hormone do more begging. (newscientist.com)
- Il Hwan Kim of the National Institutes of Health and colleagues discovered a protein of unknown function that specifically binds juvenile hormone in several species of mosquito. (asbmb.org)
- Pyriproxyfen is an insect juvenile hormone analog, similar to methoprene and fenoxycarb. (safarivet.com)
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