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Testes produce

Sperm and androgen hormone

What does the epididymis do?

Stores sperm until they're mature enough to go into the vas deferens

What does the prostate gland secrete?

Fluid that protects and nourishes sperm

What does the bulbourethral gland do

Secretes an alkaline substance before sperm enters the urethra, to protect again urine acid and vaginal acidity

What function does the acrosome have

Located at the head of a sperm, contains enzymes to break down the egg barrier for fertilization

What's the definition of Amenorrhea?

Absence of menstruation

Disorders of ovaries, pituitary glands, hypothalamus or uterus can lead to

Amenorrhea-lack of menstruation

Menstruation cramps caused by prostaglandin release when fertilization doesn't occur is called?

Dysmenorrhea

Menopause marks the end of menstruation that typically happens by age

50

When the egg is released for ovulation, what triggers it?

FSH & LH

Shedding of the uterine lining every 28 days, due to an unfertilized egg is called?

Menses

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)

Ovulation occurs how many days after the beginning of a cycle?

14

What is the Myometrium?

Thick muscle layer that contracts during labor

What is the Endometrium?

Vascular inner lining

Endometrium sheds if fertilization doesn't occur, what happens to it if it does?

Becomes thicker- stimulated by estrogen

What triggers the mammory glands?

Prolactin

Where are alveolar glands located?

In the areola

What are the alveolar glands for?

To lubricate the skin during suckling

Perineum is located

Between the anus and genitals

Where does fertilization occur?

In the fallopian tube

When a sperm and an egg come together, what do they form?

A zygote

What's a haploid?

Cell that has half the usual number of chromosomes

What's a gamete?

A mature male or female haploid

The embryonic disc has three layers, what are they?

Ectoderm


Mesoderm


Endoderm

Where is the embryonic disc located?

Inside the amniotic cavity

Chorionic villi are finger like projections that contain capillaries and emerge from

Chorionic and enter the endometrium

A single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing containing half the original generated info. What is this called

Meisosis

Sex cells are also called

Gametes

What does the yolk sac do for the fetus?

Brings in nutrition and aids the fetus as it's circulatory system

The baby is considered a fetus between the ages of

8wks to birth

The baby is considered an embryo from what age

Fertilization to 8 weeks

Where does FSH, Oxytocin, prolactin, and LH come from?

The pituitary

What hormone stimulates:


Follicle development


Production of estrogen by follicles


Meisosis in oocytes


Sperm production


FSH

What hormone


Triggers ovulation


Formation of corpus luteum from ruptured follicles


Sperm maturation



LH

What's oxytocins job?

Stimulate uterine contractions at birth


Milk let down

What inhibits LH & FSH production in the anterior pituitary?

Testosterone

What do trophoblastic cells secrete?

hCG

Estrogen and progesterone come from the corpus luteum and later from the

Placenta

Estrogen increases receptors for ______ in the Myometrium for labor

Oxytocin

What does progesterone inhibit?

Contractions of the uterus

What stimulates Endometrium gland development?

Progesterone

Progesterone helps develop mammory gland _____

Alveoli

What does prolactin stimulate?

Milk production

What does the umbilical cord connect the fetus to?

The placenta

How many arteries/veins does the umbilical cord have inside it?

2 arteries


1 vein

Arteries in the womb for baby are what color? Making veins the opposite?

Arteries are blue


Veins are red

What are the jobs of the placenta?

Allows diffusion of nutrients n wastes to and from Mom's blood


Secretes estrogen, hCG, progesterone & relaxine



What is the major channel that develops through the embryonic liver, from the left umbilical vein to the IVC?

Ductus venosus

The ductus arteriosus is the fetal

Blood vessel that joins the the Aorta with the pulmonary artery

Foramen ovale is the septal opening between

The left n right atriums

Three stages of labor?

First- dialation


Second- birth


Third- delivery of placenta

ATGC is an example of

A Genotype

Genotype is an actual generic make up, a set of

Traits

A phenotype is how genes are

Expressed on the outside

The phenotype is an interaction with it's

Genotype and environment

Individuals (such as twins) that have identical alleles for a given trait are

Homozygous

Having dissimilar pairs of genes/alleles for any hereditary characteristics is called

Heterozygous

Single nucleotide polymorphisms aka

SNPs

What is the most common type of generic variation along people?

SNPs

Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a

Nucleotide

Mitochondrial DNA is only passed down by _________, but can be received by _____&______.

Women / men and women

Mitochondrial DNA contain how many genes?

37

Meiosis is cell division process that produces

Gametes

Gametes are also called

Sperm and ova

Define spermatogenesis

Creation of sperm

How many chromosomes does a single sperm have?

23

When does sperm production begin?

Puberty

Lutenizing Hormone (LH) stimulates testosterone secretion, which in return promotes what

Sperm maturation

In a sperm cell, where is the mitochondria located?

Tail- it powers the tail to propel the cell

ATP it's made up of

Glucose and oxygen

What temperature do the testes need to be kept at

96°

If the temperature of the testes is higher than 96°, what happens?

The sperm cells won't mature

What's the function of Seminiferous tubules?

Sperm production

Where is the Epididymis located?

Backside of the Testes

What's function does the Epididymis serve?

To house sperm while they mature

The Ductus Deferens is also called

Vas deferens

The vas Deferens goes over top of what organ?

The bladder n connects on the backside

What is the function of the ejaculatory ducts?

The meeting place of the vas Deferens and the seminal vesicle

What does the seminal vesicle provide for sperm?

Fructose for energy

Prostate gland secretes an Alkaline substance that

Neutralizes acid from urine and helps sperm motility

Bulbourethral glands secrete an Alkaline substance as well that helps with

Neutralizing acid from urine as well as acid inside a vagina

What gland secretes the precum fluid?

Bulbourethral glands

Sperm mixed with secretions is called

Semen

Approximately how many sperm are in 2-4mL?

100 million

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

FSH _________ sperm

Produces

LH ________ sperm

Matures

Testosterone _________ sperm

Matures

LH __________ testosterone release

Triggers

What is released by testes to make the pituitary regulate FSH & LH

Inhibin

Define oogenesis

Creation of egg cell and ovum

Location of oogenesis?

Ovaries

Oogenesis is paused until ______ then stops at ________

Puberty / menopause

Ovaries start meisosis, then stops until

Puberty

A primary oocytes ( immature egg) is surrounded by

Follicular cells

What are the primary follicles

Ovaries

How many chromosomes does an ovum have?

23

A type of cell division that results in four daughter cells- each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.

Meiosis

A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells- each having the same number/kind of chromosomes as the parents nucleus

Mitosis

A _______ is a cell containing two COMPLETE sets of chromosomes, one from each parent

Diploid

Define oligomenorrhea

Infrequent menstrual periods

Ovarian follicles contain one incomplete _______

Primary oocytes (proto-egg)

Follicle cells surround the primary oocyte, they are the

Supporting cells

The ovarian cycle does what

Matures follicles and eggs

Menstrual cycle happens in the uterus, to prepare for

A fertilized egg

Ovarian cycle releases

GnRH

When puberty begins the hypothalamus starts up the ovarian cycle to release the sex hormone GnRH to trigger the production of

FSH & LH

GnRH stimulates the growth of only

One follicle- the most mature

Follicle releases estrogen, triggered by

FSH & LH

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

LH triggers the dormant oocyte (inside the follicle) to finish completing

Meiosis 1, to move onto metapase 2

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

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

The corpus luteum secretes ______,________&________ to make the pituitary to secrete more FSH & LH

Progesterone, estrogen & inhibin

Fallopian tube are made up of

Sheets of smooth muscle &


Highly folded mucosa layer


Meiosis 2 is only completed when

Sperm meets an egg cell

What are the layers of the uterus

Perimetrium- outside


Myometrium- middle (contracts during labor)


Endometrium- inner mucosal lining


What layer of the uterus has two layers of it's own?

Endometrium

If fertilization does not occur, what layer of the Endometrium sloughs off?

Stratum functionalis

The shedding of the stratum functionalis is triggered by a drop in what hormones

Estrogen and progesterone

If fertilization does occur, the progesterone from the corpus luteum will trigger the thickening of

The strateum functionalis

The vagina is approximately how long?

4 inches

What are the four phases of menstruation called in order?


Phase 1- Menstrual


Phase 2- Follicular


Phase 3- Ovulation


Phase 4- Luteal

Morula happens when Zygotes

Divide

Fertilization occurs where?

In the fallopian tubes

Two zygotes 23+23=

Diploid 46 chromosomes

Cleavage is the mitotic division, while staying the same size inside the

Morula

What does the hormone hCG do?

Egg development


Stimulates egg release-ovulation


Increase sperm count

GnRH is released in the male, causing FSH & LH to secrete into the blood, causing the leydig cells to release

Testosterone

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

Meiosis 2 begins in sperm before they even have tails. How many daughter cells form

Four

When the four daughter sperm cells reach the side of the lumen (Seminiferous tubules) each one

Begins to form a tail

Where do sperm gain their mitochondria?

Epididymis

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

Where does a diploid zygote form?

Inside an egg, right after a sperm breaks the barrier

The first stage of fertilization is

The cleavage stage-when the cells split in two over and over

The cleavage stage makes a zygote go from one cell into how many

16

A morula marks the end of what stage?

The cleavage

A _______ rearranges all the cells that were formed during the cleavage phase

Blastocyst

A blastocyst is contained by a single layer of

Trophoblasts

Inside the blastocyst that cluster of multiplied zygotes will collect to one side and eventually form

Into the embryo

Trophoblasts will eventually form the

Placenta

About a week after fertilization the blastocyst will

Implant into the endometrial layet

The corpus luteum excretes estrogen and progesterone into the Endometrium to make what possible

Implantation of the zygote

The trophoblasts secretes what hormone AFTER implantation takes place, to protect the zygote and stop menses from occuring

hCG

When delivery date comes near, the placenta stops making progesterone and kicks up the production of

Estrogen

Oxytocin is release before delivery into the Myometrium, telling the cells it's time to contact, this in return makes the placenta release

Prostaglandin

Prostaglandin and oxytocin releases ultimately cause

Labor

Zygote becomes a ____________


Morula becomes a ___________

Blastomere


Blastocyst

What four hormones does the placenta release?

Estrogen, progesterone, hCG & Relaxine

What does Relaxine do?

Makes the cartilage in the hip area soften