A simple model of hormone biosynthesis, the progesterone pathway.

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Hormones play an important role in physical and cognitive development. Among them, progesterone is a steroid hormone that can be synthesized by the human body from some building blocks. When important components can be made by the body itself it’s called de novo synthesis.

Progesterone is synthesized by cleaving or cutting a side chain from the…