Explain how the model in the image supports this statement: the body carries out critical life functions through systems of specialized cells.

This hormone was made by a different cell, and it’s now being taken in by another cell using a steroid receptor. The steroid receptor is affecting the process of transcription in the nucleus so that a specific type of mRNA can exit the cell and form a new protein in the ribosomes. This formation wouldn’t be possible unless specialized cells were working together to perform this function.