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Aside from the hormones involved, is puberty the same in males and females?

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Dr. Johanna Fricke answered

Specializes in Pediatrics - Developmental and Behavioral

Puberty = a process: of physical maturation during which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction. Hormones in the brain signal the gonads - ovaries in girls or testes in boys, to begin the maturational process. Growth plates of long bones are fused by the end of the process & adult height is reached.

Answered 2/15/2015

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