Name the hormones that regulate the secondary sexual characters in females.

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Secondary sexual characters:
Secondary sexual characteristics develop during puberty which includes, enlargement of breasts and growth of body hair.
A steroid hormone responsible for the development of female characteristics in mammals is estrogen.
Estrogen is a category of sex hormone which is responsible for development and regulation of the reproductive system and secondary sex characteristics in females.

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