Sexual reproduction

The film In the Womb gives the audience much perspective and insight into the complicated process of pregnancy. As defined by the textbook, “vaginal intercourse is the insertion of the penis into the vagina,” which is the only kind of sexual activity that can lead to conception. It is astounding that upon ejaculation, 500 million of the smallest type of human cell travel to the fallopian tubes within the female, but the body ensures that only one sperm can become attached. This is provided that…

Michele Green #3 Manuscript Questions 463 Reproduction 4/28/17 Efficacy of embryo transfer in lactating dairy cows during summer using fresh or vitrified embryos produced in vitro with sex-sorted semen 1) What is the question the authors are trying to answer? - The authors are trying to determine the difference of transferring fresh embryos or vitrified embryos that were made by in vitro with semen that was sorted compared to artificial insemination to see which one improves calving rates as…

Pauline – Great power point. The more I thought of your question on having a diagnosis of endometriosis and infertility would you be willing to have a hysterectomy, to prevent the possibility of having ovarian cancer, and help in reducing the symptoms of endometriosis the harder I found it answer it. I thought maybe as a man I might not know exactly how it would feel but then again a woman wouldn’t either if she hadn’t experienced this. As a nurse and as a single father to my 20 year old…

Art Therapy as a Healing Tool for Sub-fertile Women, an 11-page summary of multiple studies completed by the Hamilton Health Science Centre for Reproductive Care, is about the effects of art therapy on infertile women. This study used questionnaires and art therapy to help relieve participants’ anxiety and depression. The participants in the experiment were twenty-one women with a mean age of 35.7 and a duration of sub-fertility of 64 months. The women were organized into groups of three…

15. A 35-year-old female present at your clinic to discuss birth control. She has 2 children with her husband and they are in agreement that their family is complete. You discussed with her different options. Which statement is true regarding Intrauterine Devices (IUD)? A. Success rate of the IUD is slightly lower than oral contraceptive pills B. Failure rate of the IUD ranges from 0.2-0.9% within the first year of insertion C. Prophylactic antibiotic should be routinely prescribed before IUD…

What does abortion mean to you? Well, according to my google search, abortion means the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Most people believe that if the baby miscarriages during an operation or just in general, that that is an abortion, but it is only if you kill the fetus intentionally in order to save yourself. You should never do an abortion thinking that the baby is “not alive” or it “doesn't count as murder.” Also by exterminating your baby, you are not following God’s plan for…

In 1954, a british scientist named J. B. Haldane created the phase ¨ectogenesis¨ to describe how human pregnancy would one day give way to artificial womb. Ectogenesis is defined as ¨the development of embryos in artificial conditions outside the uterus.¨ 14 years ago in 2003 a embryo of a mouse almost made it to full term and was reported to be moving around and breathing in an endometrial tissue , but died just a few days later. Endometrial tissue is defined as ¨ the mucous membrane that lines…

I became more fascinated with in vitro fertilization after watching the program Little Women L.A. A dwarf couple was wanting to have a child of their own but was having trouble conceiving the natural way so they looked into IVF. After watching the program, I started wondering if two of my friends who want to have a child would benefit from this kind of procedure. After doing some research I discovered there are pros and cons to the procedure. Also, there are a few questions that I do not know…

IVF is a process when a baby is scientifically formed. IVF helps people like heterosexual couples; same sex couples and single women to have their own baby. Many different people have different opinions on IVF were it is a positive or a negative treatment to have. IVF is a legal treatment in Australia and other countries however it is illegal in many other countries as well. IVF is a very risky treatment and there are many other alternate solutions instead of it. IVF is a process when a baby…

Most animals exhibit some type of aggressive behavior when confronted with one another, and this behavior is also shown in freshwater crayfish. Aggressive behavior in crayfish can be seen by anybody, but it becomes more prominent in a restricted laboratory setting. Groups of crayfish of about the same length and the same sex, plainly exhibit a pattern of dominance. When observed, it is noted that the crayfish perform different degrees of combative behavior. Researchers beg the question, how does…