What hormone is responsible for the expression of secondary sexual characteristics in human females?
1 Answer
Feb 27, 2016
Estrogen
Explanation:
The secondary sexual characteristics in human females include development of breast, widening of hips, increase in body fat and growth of genital hairs. A diagram follows :
The effect of estrogen in body : 
Here, we can see estrogen is responsible for all the secondary female sexual characteristics. Here is a small diagram showing the effect of estrogen on female (and testosterone on male):
