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Why do female drosophila cannibalize the males?

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Because their purpose is done

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What do you call the storage of sperm in the female drosophila?

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Spermathica

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How long is a drosophila life cycle?

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10-14 days

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How many molting periods does a drosophila have?

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3

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What do you call the period between molting periods?

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Instar

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During what stage is the actively feeding stage of drosophila?

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Larval stage

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What stage is the metamorphosis stage?

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Pupal stage

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What do you call the adult drosophila?

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Imago or imaginal stage

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Why does molting proceed?

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This is because the exoskeleton does not permit growth

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This is the series of development changes in which an insect passes from larval into adult stage

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Metamorphosis

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In drosophila life cycle, when does the most drastic changes occur?

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Pupal stage

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How long does pupation take place?

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12 hours

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In drosophila, this emerges in 6-8 hours and after 8 hours it will become sexually mature

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Black pupa

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What are the phases of gametogenesis?

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Proliferation, growth, maturation, and differentiation

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How does oogenesis take place?

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2n primary oocyte to 1 haploid secondary oocyte and 1 haploid polar body, resulting to 3 polar bodies and 1 ovum

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How does spermatogenesis take place?

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2n primary spermatocyte to 2 haploid secondary spermatocytes resulting to 4 spermatids

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What is the other term for sustentacular cells

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Sertoli cells

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What is the function of the sertoli cells?

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They function for nourishment of the sperm in the context of mobility and fertilizability

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These are compartmentalized in the seminiferous tubules

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Testes

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This is located in between the seminiferous tubules and functions for the release of testosterone

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Leydig/interstitial cells

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These are non-functional that still needs to undergo spermiogenesis

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Spermatids

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This enlarges to become primary spermatocyte

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Spermatogonium

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______ undergoes the first meiotic division to form the secondary spermatocytes containing haploid number of dyads

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Primary spermatocyte

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Secondary spermatocytes undergo the second meiotic division to form the ________

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Spermatids

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Spermatids undergo spermiogenesis to become highly specialized _________
Spermatozoa or sperm
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Cells located at the _______ of the semeniferous tubules are usually the __________
Periphery; spermatogonia
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Cells found at the lumen are the developing _______
Spermatozoa
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This is the ability of the egg to be fertilized, and the sperm to fertilize
Fertilizability
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Sertoli and interstitial cells are not ______
Spermatogenic
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What part of the sperm contains hyroulonic acid?
Acrosome
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What are the parts of the sperm?
Head, mid piece, tail
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What composes the primary egg membrane?
Zonal pellucida, corona radiata
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_______ only occurs during the intrauterine period
Proliferation
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Just before ovulation, the ______________ will complete meiosis 1
Primary oocyte
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What happens to the resulting secondary oocyte?
Arrested at metaphase 2
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What should be the condition for the secondary oocyte to continue with meiosis 2 that would produce the ovum and polar body?
When it is fertilized
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In 1000 eggs, where the 1 egg becomes the graafian follicle, what happens to the 999?
They become the bleeding during the menstruation
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What is the estrous cycle?
It is where the female is in heat and is receptive to the male for sexual copulation and where ovulation is induced
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Ovulation is spontaneous
Menstrual cycle
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What secretes estrogen?
Theca lining
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What is the source of the hormone HCG?
Placenta
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What hormone does the corpus luteum secrets?
Progesterone
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This is the hormone of pregnancy
Progesterone
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What does progesterone do to the body?
Increases vascularization and also placidity of the uterus
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German measles, nicotine, and alcohol are
Teratogenic
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What illness does thalidomide cause?
Phocomelia
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Why was there an increase in phocomelia in the 70s?
It was prescribed to pregnant women as sedatives
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What are the characteristics of phocomelia?
Flipper-like, loss of arms and legs
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What does the microspore mother cell produce through meiosis?
4 microspores
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(Male) What does the 4 microspores produce through mitosis?
4 Tube nuclei and 4 generative nucleus (for each microspore)
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Each of the generative nucleus produces?
2 sperm nucleus
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What does the megaspore mother cell produce through meiosis?
4 megaspores
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From the 4 microspore, 3 dies and the 1 megaspore undergoes mitosis to produce an __________
8-nucleated embryo sac
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From the 8 nucleated embryo sac, what occurs next?
3 antipodals, 2 synergids, 2 polar nucleus, 1 egg cell
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Where does spermatogenesis take place?
Seminiferous tubules in the testes
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Primordial sperm cell
Spermatogonia
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Primodial egg cell
Oogonium
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What do you call the process that spermatids undergo for specialization?
Spermiogenesis
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_______ break free from the sertoli lining into the lumena
Sperm cells
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This connects the yolk sac with the primitive midgut of the developing fetus
Omphalomesenteric duct
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This is adjacent to the endoderm and yolk sac, that forms the heart
Splanchnic mesoderm
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Primordial follicle is composed of
Granulosa cells, oocyte
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Primordial follicles forms the
Primary follicle (with zona pellucida)
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After the primary follicle, what is formed?
Secondary follicle with fluid-filled vesicle and theca lining
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What follows the secondary follicle?
Mature follicle with antrum
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During ovulation, the oocyte is released what forms around it?
Corona radiata
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What happens to the follicle following ovulation?
It grows to become the corpus luteum
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What becomes of the corpus luteum?
Corpus albicans

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