Reproductive System

Question 1

What are the female gonads called?

Answer 1

Ovaries

Question 2

What is the Function of the uterus?

Answer 2

To hold and nourish the developing fetus

Question 3

What are the functions of the ovaries?

Answer 3

To produce gamtes and to produce sex hormones such as estrogen and progesterone

Question 4

What is a haploid cell?

Answer 4

Only have 23 chromosomes and formed by meiosis

Question 5

What is the external female genitalia called?

Answer 5

The vulva

Question 6

What does the vulva consist of?

Answer 6

Mons Pubis, Labium minora, labium majora, Hymen, vagina, urethra, clitoris

Question 7

What is the vestibule?

Answer 7

The combination of the urethra and vaginal openings

Question 8

What is the functional unit of the female reproductive system?

Answer 8

The ovum/ ovaries

Question 9

What is an ovarian follicle?

Answer 9

Tiny sac-like structures that each contain a single oocyte

Question 10

What is an oocyte?

Answer 10

An incomplete egg

Question 11

What happens to the development of oocytes right after birth?

Answer 11

They stop developing at first stage of meiosis until puberty

Question 12

What is egg creation called?

Answer 12

Oogenesis

Question 13

what is the menstrual cycle, basically?

Answer 13

What happens in the uterus to prepare for a fertilized egg

Question 14

What is the ovarian cycle, basically?

Answer 14

The maturation of the follicle and egg

Question 15

The ovarian and menstrual cycles are primarily controlled by which two structures?

Answer 15

1. Hypothalamus

2. Anterior pituitary gland

Question 16

Brief description of the Ovarian cycle:

Answer 16

1. Hypothalamus secretes GnRH
2. Stimulates anterior pituitary gland to secrete FSH and LH.
3. FSH stimulate growth of 1 follicle
4. Triggers follicles to secrete its own estrogen
5. Follicle stimulated estrogen stimulates pituitary to produce more LH

Question 17

Function of LH

Answer 17

Works on the growth of the dormant oocyte inside the follicle to restart division

Question 18

What is the Average length of ovarian cycle?

Answer 18

14 days

Question 19

What happens to the mature follicle at the end of the 14 days?

Answer 19

Pushes up against the ovarian wall, ruptures, and with the help of enzymes, ejects the oocyte out of the ovary

Question 20

What is the damaged follicle now called?

Answer 20

Corpus Luteum

Question 21

What happens to the damaged follicle after oocyte ejection?

Answer 21

morphs into corpus luteum, slows down estrogen production, produces progesterone and inhibin

Question 22

The P.I.E. that the corpus lutetium produces is to do what?

Answer 22

Signal the stopping of FSH and LH from Pituitary,

prepare the uterus to receive oocyte

Question 23

Where does the egg travel after the ovary?

Answer 23

Down the fallopian tube towards the uterus

Question 24

What are the vestibular glands for?

Answer 24

To secrete lubrication during sexual intercourse

Question 25

What are the 3 phases of the menstrual cycle?

Answer 25

Menstrual phase, proliferative phase, secretory phase

Question 26

Menstrual phase last how many days

Answer 26

0-5 days

Question 27

Proliferative phase is from when to when?

Answer 27

5-14

Question 28

Secretory phase is from when to when?

Answer 28

14-28