what are the three major chemical classifications of hormones?
There are two major chemical classes of hormones, peptides (proteins) and steroid hormones. Protein based hormones can be divided into three categories: proteins, peptides and amines. Their differences are essential with their size and what they are synthesized from. Peptides are compounds that consist of two or more amino acids; proteins are compounds that consist of 50 or more amino acids; amines are synthesized from the amino acid tyrosine.