Marsha is eating a chocolate bar that contains hazelnuts and other ground nuts. however, as the bar has a bad taste, she stops. on closer inspection of the bar, she sees a fungal growth around the nuts, embedded in the chocolate. what kind of a fungal infection could have infested the nuts?

hormones in blood stream

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endocrine glands secrete hormones into the blood stream near them; the hormones then travel in our bloodstream until it reaches its destination, called a target cell, in distance parts of the body. in the target tissue, hormones lock onto the target’s plasma membrane, called the receptor site.