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Which organelle is responsible for packaging prohormones into secretory vesicles?
Which organelle is responsible for packaging prohormones into secretory vesicles?
- Mitochondria
- Lysosomes
- Endoplasmic reticulum
- Golgi apparatus (correct)
What is the function of enzymes in secretory vesicles?
What is the function of enzymes in secretory vesicles?
- To activate inactive fragments
- To synthesize prohormones
- To cleave prohormones into smaller, active hormones (correct)
- To cleave preprohormones
What is the initial state of preprohormones?
What is the initial state of preprohormones?
- Not biologically active (correct)
- Packaged into secretory vesicles
- Cleaved into smaller prohormones
- Biologically active
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