Ovulation

secreted or discharged during different parts of the menstrual cycle and pregnancy. The mucus is secreted from the cervix to protect the reproductive organs from opportunistic pathogens and invading bacteria and/or pathogens. Additionally, when ovulation has occurred, the mucus evolves and acts as a safe passage way for sperm to travel. This is why many women experience an increase in mucus…

than parental investment. For example, female baboons provide a direct care to their young (Boyd & Silk, 2015, p. 147). The reason that primate females and males emphasize differently is because of concealed ovulation. It is difficult to make a mate consciously perceive if females are near ovulation and ready for pregnancy, and hence Diamond (1997, p. 63-88) produces two theories: “Daddy-at-home” and “Many-fathers”. The origin of two theories is to make sex efficient. In other words, the…

There are some challenges in order to produce monozygotic twins in a rhesus monkey. There are two major challenges which are the deficient pregnancy rates following embryo transfer and the inherent difficulties in supporting twin pregnancy in a rhesus monkey. Rhesus monkey is not normally carried twins but in certain cases where the species naturally occurring twin pregnancies, the offspring rarely survive. The twins are usually born smaller and weaker than the single babies due to the…

lining of the abdomen, lining of the bowel and bladder, lymph nodes, lungs, and liver.[4][5] The risk of ovarian cancer increases in women who have ovulated more over their lifetime. This includes those who have never had children, those who begin ovulation at a younger age or reach menopause at an older age.[6] Other risk…

Can preseason fitness help prevent injury? In effort to decrease knee join injury, Hewett and colleagues (1999) recommended all young female athletes participate in a training program that includes progressive resistance weight training. This is one of the few studies that collected data on athletes that completed a preseason training program. A trained athlete completed a 6-week muscular training program that incorporated flexibility, plyometric, and weight training. The entire study consisted…

If the cat does mate, luteinising hormone (LH) will be released, which will stimulate ovulation. Metoestrous and dioestrous The next stages of the cycle is metoestrous and dioestrous. During this stage, the cat will not accept males to mate with and her behaviour will return to usual. Unlike other males, which continue to ovulate if they do…

also speaks of surgeries to enlarge and reduce breast size and the different methods of birth control. While the females of Nacirema use moon phases to help prevent pregnancy, many Americans use family planning and avoid intercourse around their ovulation cycle. Miner also addresses the…

The Planned Child “ A mother might give birth to a child, but before that a child gives birth to a mother”. The poem named "The Planned Child" by Sharon Old is a commendation to parents who wish a child so much as to plan for conceiving. This poem is of a women who knows that her mother and father went through lot of efforts to plan her conception. The first stanza draws the picture of disgust of the speaker of being a planned child. The speaker of the poem considers her conception as an…

When people hear fertility, they think of the ability to bear child(ren), which is true. Depending on the country and/or era one is in, fertility is either a huge part of a being or not (not really a problem if infertile). The inability is conceive a child after a year of trying is called, infertility. There are many factors that play a role diminishing fertility, or infertility. One factor is age, as stated in the previous journal entry, emerging adulthood is the best biologically time to…

Prostaglandins are one group of eicosanoids. They are unsaturated fatty acids derivatives that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of homeostatic activities such as, inflammation and body temperature, and many more functions of the body. Prostaglandins are derived from arachidonic acid. The formation of the both the arachidonic acid, then prostaglandin molecules begins with a stimulus to a cell, that activates a membrane enzyme called phospholipase A2. The arachidonic…