Which of the following are properties of steroid hormones? i) steroid hormones are lipid soluble and easily cross the phospholipid bilayer. ii) steroid hormones usually exert their effects on target cells through membrane receptor proteins. iii) steroid hormones act on cells close to where they were produced. iv) steroid hormones regulate gene transcription by binding to intracellular receptor proteins.

The correct answer is option I) Steroid hormones are lipid soluble and easily cross the phospholipid bilayer.

The steroid hormones are made up of steroid molecules, the steroid molecules are hydrophobic and lipid soluble. This property makes help the steroid molecule to cross the phospholipid bilayer membrane easily. The steroid molecule has a direct influence on the genome transcription, they act by binding with the DNA as a transcriptional factor.

hydroxyl -oh

alcohols, always polar, can form hydrogen bonds with h2o molecules

carboxyl -cooh  

cargoxylic acids, has acidic properties which is a source of hydrogen ions, found in cells in ionized for with a charge of oh-1

carbonyl > co

ketone if within skeleton, aldehyde if group is at the end of skeleton, k & a may be structural isomers, it determines 2 sugars (ketose & aldose)

amino -nh2

amines, acts as a base, it can pick up h+ ions from surrounding solution, ionized with charge of 1+

methyl ch2

addition to rna/dna affects and gene expression

phosphate -opo3 ²⁻

organic phosphates, contributes to negative charge to, molecule that it is a part of, and potential to react with h20

sulfhydryl -sh

thiols, cross-linking stabilize the protein, and it is structure