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Testes produce |
Sperm and androgen hormone |
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What does the epididymis do? |
Stores sperm until they're mature enough to go into the vas deferens |
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What does the prostate gland secrete? |
Fluid that protects and nourishes sperm |
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What does the bulbourethral gland do |
Secretes an alkaline substance before sperm enters the urethra, to protect again urine acid and vaginal acidity |
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What function does the acrosome have |
Located at the head of a sperm, contains enzymes to break down the egg barrier for fertilization |
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What's the definition of Amenorrhea? |
Absence of menstruation |
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Disorders of ovaries, pituitary glands, hypothalamus or uterus can lead to |
Amenorrhea-lack of menstruation |
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Menstruation cramps caused by prostaglandin release when fertilization doesn't occur is called? |
Dysmenorrhea |
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Menopause marks the end of menstruation that typically happens by age |
50 |
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When the egg is released for ovulation, what triggers it? |
FSH & LH |
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Shedding of the uterine lining every 28 days, due to an unfertilized egg is called? |
Menses |
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What are the three phases of the menstrual cycle |
Menstrual- thickened endometrial sheds Follicular- new endometrium forms in anticipation of fertilized egg( triggered by FSH) Ovulation- mature egg released from follicle into fallopian tube (triggered by LH) |
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Ovulation occurs how many days after the beginning of a cycle? |
14 |
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What is the Myometrium? |
Thick muscle layer that contracts during labor |
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What is the Endometrium? |
Vascular inner lining |
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Endometrium sheds if fertilization doesn't occur, what happens to it if it does? |
Becomes thicker- stimulated by estrogen |
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What triggers the mammory glands? |
Prolactin |
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Where are alveolar glands located? |
In the areola |
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What are the alveolar glands for? |
To lubricate the skin during suckling |
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Perineum is located |
Between the anus and genitals |
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Where does fertilization occur? |
In the fallopian tube |
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When a sperm and an egg come together, what do they form? |
A zygote |
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What's a haploid? |
Cell that has half the usual number of chromosomes |
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What's a gamete? |
A mature male or female haploid |
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The embryonic disc has three layers, what are they? |
Ectoderm Mesoderm Endoderm |
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Where is the embryonic disc located? |
Inside the amniotic cavity |
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Chorionic villi are finger like projections that contain capillaries and emerge from |
Chorionic and enter the endometrium |
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A single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing containing half the original generated info. What is this called |
Meisosis |
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Sex cells are also called |
Gametes |
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What does the yolk sac do for the fetus? |
Brings in nutrition and aids the fetus as it's circulatory system |
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The baby is considered a fetus between the ages of |
8wks to birth |
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The baby is considered an embryo from what age |
Fertilization to 8 weeks |
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Where does FSH, Oxytocin, prolactin, and LH come from? |
The pituitary |
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What hormone stimulates: Follicle development Production of estrogen by follicles Meisosis in oocytes Sperm production |
FSH |
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What hormone Triggers ovulation Formation of corpus luteum from ruptured follicles Sperm maturation |
LH |
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What's oxytocins job? |
Stimulate uterine contractions at birth Milk let down |
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What inhibits LH & FSH production in the anterior pituitary? |
Testosterone |
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What do trophoblastic cells secrete? |
hCG |
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Estrogen and progesterone come from the corpus luteum and later from the |
Placenta |
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Estrogen increases receptors for ______ in the Myometrium for labor |
Oxytocin |
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What does progesterone inhibit? |
Contractions of the uterus |
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What stimulates Endometrium gland development? |
Progesterone |
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Progesterone helps develop mammory gland _____ |
Alveoli |
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What does prolactin stimulate? |
Milk production |
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What does the umbilical cord connect the fetus to? |
The placenta |
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How many arteries/veins does the umbilical cord have inside it? |
2 arteries 1 vein |
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Arteries in the womb for baby are what color? Making veins the opposite? |
Arteries are blue Veins are red |
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What are the jobs of the placenta? |
Allows diffusion of nutrients n wastes to and from Mom's blood Secretes estrogen, hCG, progesterone & relaxine |
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What is the major channel that develops through the embryonic liver, from the left umbilical vein to the IVC? |
Ductus venosus |
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The ductus arteriosus is the fetal |
Blood vessel that joins the the Aorta with the pulmonary artery |
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Foramen ovale is the septal opening between |
The left n right atriums |
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Three stages of labor? |
First- dialation Second- birth Third- delivery of placenta |
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ATGC is an example of |
A Genotype |
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Genotype is an actual generic make up, a set of |
Traits |
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A phenotype is how genes are |
Expressed on the outside |
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The phenotype is an interaction with it's |
Genotype and environment |
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Individuals (such as twins) that have identical alleles for a given trait are |
Homozygous |
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Having dissimilar pairs of genes/alleles for any hereditary characteristics is called |
Heterozygous |
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms aka |
SNPs |
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What is the most common type of generic variation along people? |
SNPs |
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Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a |
Nucleotide |
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Mitochondrial DNA is only passed down by _________, but can be received by _____&______. |
Women / men and women |
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Mitochondrial DNA contain how many genes? |
37 |
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Meiosis is cell division process that produces |
Gametes |
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Gametes are also called |
Sperm and ova |
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Define spermatogenesis |
Creation of sperm |
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How many chromosomes does a single sperm have? |
23 |
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When does sperm production begin? |
Puberty |
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Lutenizing Hormone (LH) stimulates testosterone secretion, which in return promotes what |
Sperm maturation |
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In a sperm cell, where is the mitochondria located? |
Tail- it powers the tail to propel the cell |
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ATP it's made up of |
Glucose and oxygen |
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What temperature do the testes need to be kept at |
96° |
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If the temperature of the testes is higher than 96°, what happens? |
The sperm cells won't mature |
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What's the function of Seminiferous tubules? |
Sperm production |
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Where is the Epididymis located? |
Backside of the Testes |
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What's function does the Epididymis serve? |
To house sperm while they mature |
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The Ductus Deferens is also called |
Vas deferens |
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The vas Deferens goes over top of what organ? |
The bladder n connects on the backside |
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What is the function of the ejaculatory ducts? |
The meeting place of the vas Deferens and the seminal vesicle |
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What does the seminal vesicle provide for sperm? |
Fructose for energy |
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Prostate gland secretes an Alkaline substance that |
Neutralizes acid from urine and helps sperm motility |
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Bulbourethral glands secrete an Alkaline substance as well that helps with |
Neutralizing acid from urine as well as acid inside a vagina |
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What gland secretes the precum fluid? |
Bulbourethral glands |
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Sperm mixed with secretions is called |
Semen |
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Approximately how many sperm are in 2-4mL? |
100 million |
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The flow of hormonal triggers in a male |
Hypothalamus releases hormones To trigger the anterior pituitary to release LH & FSH. LH stimulates interstitial cells to produce test FSH stimulates Seminiferous tubules to produce sperm Test inhibits LH & FSH production from occuring |
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FSH _________ sperm |
Produces |
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LH ________ sperm |
Matures |
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Testosterone _________ sperm |
Matures |
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LH __________ testosterone release |
Triggers |
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What is released by testes to make the pituitary regulate FSH & LH |
Inhibin |
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Define oogenesis |
Creation of egg cell and ovum |
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Location of oogenesis? |
Ovaries |
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Oogenesis is paused until ______ then stops at ________ |
Puberty / menopause |
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Ovaries start meisosis, then stops until |
Puberty |
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A primary oocytes ( immature egg) is surrounded by |
Follicular cells |
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What are the primary follicles |
Ovaries |
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How many chromosomes does an ovum have? |
23 |
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A type of cell division that results in four daughter cells- each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. |
Meiosis |
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A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells- each having the same number/kind of chromosomes as the parents nucleus |
Mitosis |
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A _______ is a cell containing two COMPLETE sets of chromosomes, one from each parent |
Diploid |
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Define oligomenorrhea |
Infrequent menstrual periods |
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Ovarian follicles contain one incomplete _______ |
Primary oocytes (proto-egg) |
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Follicle cells surround the primary oocyte, they are the |
Supporting cells |
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The ovarian cycle does what |
Matures follicles and eggs |
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Menstrual cycle happens in the uterus, to prepare for |
A fertilized egg |
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Ovarian cycle releases |
GnRH |
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When puberty begins the hypothalamus starts up the ovarian cycle to release the sex hormone GnRH to trigger the production of |
FSH & LH |
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GnRH stimulates the growth of only |
One follicle- the most mature |
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Follicle releases estrogen, triggered by |
FSH & LH |
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Estrogen is released from a stimulated follicle cell, which then makes the estrogen trigger the release of |
Even more LH to finish the maturation of the follicle |
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LH triggers the dormant oocyte (inside the follicle) to finish completing |
Meiosis 1, to move onto metapase 2 |
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When the follicle is a mature oocyte, it pushes up against the ovary wall and with the help of _________ breaches the wall and is released out towards the fimbriae |
Enzymes |
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How does a corpus luteum form |
An mature oocyte gets ejected from an ovary, and the now damaged follicle it was encased in, slows it's estrogen production and forms into a corpus luteum |
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The corpus luteum secretes ______,________&________ to make the pituitary to secrete more FSH & LH |
Progesterone, estrogen & inhibin |
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Fallopian tube are made up of |
Sheets of smooth muscle & Highly folded mucosa layer |
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Meiosis 2 is only completed when |
Sperm meets an egg cell |
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What are the layers of the uterus |
Perimetrium- outside Myometrium- middle (contracts during labor) Endometrium- inner mucosal lining |
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What layer of the uterus has two layers of it's own? |
Endometrium |
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If fertilization does not occur, what layer of the Endometrium sloughs off? |
Stratum functionalis |
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The shedding of the stratum functionalis is triggered by a drop in what hormones |
Estrogen and progesterone |
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If fertilization does occur, the progesterone from the corpus luteum will trigger the thickening of |
The strateum functionalis |
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The vagina is approximately how long? |
4 inches |
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What are the four phases of menstruation called in order? |
Phase 1- Menstrual Phase 2- Follicular Phase 3- Ovulation Phase 4- Luteal |
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Morula happens when Zygotes |
Divide |
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Fertilization occurs where? |
In the fallopian tubes |
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Two zygotes 23+23= |
Diploid 46 chromosomes |
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Cleavage is the mitotic division, while staying the same size inside the |
Morula |
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What does the hormone hCG do? |
Egg development Stimulates egg release-ovulation Increase sperm count |
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GnRH is released in the male, causing FSH & LH to secrete into the blood, causing the leydig cells to release |
Testosterone |
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When sperm are triggered by testosterone to divide, they completely split into 2 daughter cells and |
One stays to continue to duplicate and the other get pushed towards the (lumen) middle of the Seminiferous tubules |
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Meiosis 2 begins in sperm before they even have tails. How many daughter cells form |
Four |
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When the four daughter sperm cells reach the side of the lumen (Seminiferous tubules) each one |
Begins to form a tail |
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Where do sperm gain their mitochondria? |
Epididymis |
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What happens to the sperms acrosome inside the vagina |
The vaginas environment starts the break down the outer covering allowing the sperm to secrete the enzyme to get into the egg |
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Where does a diploid zygote form? |
Inside an egg, right after a sperm breaks the barrier |
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The first stage of fertilization is |
The cleavage stage-when the cells split in two over and over |
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The cleavage stage makes a zygote go from one cell into how many |
16 |
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A morula marks the end of what stage? |
The cleavage |
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A _______ rearranges all the cells that were formed during the cleavage phase |
Blastocyst |
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A blastocyst is contained by a single layer of |
Trophoblasts |
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Inside the blastocyst that cluster of multiplied zygotes will collect to one side and eventually form |
Into the embryo |
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Trophoblasts will eventually form the |
Placenta |
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About a week after fertilization the blastocyst will |
Implant into the endometrial layet |
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The corpus luteum excretes estrogen and progesterone into the Endometrium to make what possible |
Implantation of the zygote |
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The trophoblasts secretes what hormone AFTER implantation takes place, to protect the zygote and stop menses from occuring |
hCG |
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When delivery date comes near, the placenta stops making progesterone and kicks up the production of |
Estrogen |
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Oxytocin is release before delivery into the Myometrium, telling the cells it's time to contact, this in return makes the placenta release |
Prostaglandin |
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Prostaglandin and oxytocin releases ultimately cause |
Labor |
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Zygote becomes a ____________ Morula becomes a ___________ |
Blastomere Blastocyst |
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What four hormones does the placenta release? |
Estrogen, progesterone, hCG & Relaxine |
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What does Relaxine do? |
Makes the cartilage in the hip area soften |