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Q. The term hormone was given by

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Hormones are organic compounds which are synthesized away from the place of their action. The first hormone to be discovered was secretin by Starling.
Insulin is a small ($51$-amino acid) protein consisting of two amino acid chains linked by disulphide bonds.