Trying to explain steroid hormones as transcription factors to someone, and just don't have the words? According to a student at the Max Plank Institute of Experimental Medicine, who drew the figure below,"The results of this mechanism could you easily have studied entering puberty." Or you could have made a drawing like this!
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like the drawing
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