General Chemistry II Course
Competencies
Lesson 15: Steroids
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Understand and draw the skeletal structure for steroids
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Discuss and predict the lipophilic/lipophobic properties of steroids
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Explain the effects of anabolic steroids and of each of the two classes
of corticosteroids (mineralcorticoids and glucocorticoids)
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Outline where steroids are produced, what their sources are, and how they
work hormones in the human body
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Discuss steroidal sex hormones