Female Anatomy
Male Anatomy
Menstrual Cycle
Fertilization and Development
Miscellaneous
100
This structure is responsible for producing an egg cell.
What is the ovary?
100
This structure produces both sperm cells and testosterone.
What are the testes?
100
This word means the release of the egg from the ovary.
What is ovulation?
100
This is what we call the process by which the embryo begins to divide.
What is cleavage?
100
This cell layer forms the skin.
What is the ectoderm?
200
This is the site of implantation of an embryo.
What is the uterus?
200
A blockage in these tubes would prevent transport of sperm from the testes to the urethra.
What is the Vas Deferens?
200
This structure surrounds and protects and egg cell and helps it to mature during the first phase of the menstrual cycle.
What is the follicle?
200
This is the hollow ball of cells produced during the first week of development.
What is a blastula?
200
This is the process by which fertilization occurs in a petri dish, and the embryo is then implanted into the woman's uterus.
What is in vitro fertilization?
300
This is the site of fertilization.
What is the Fallopian tube? (or oviduct)
300

This is the site of the production of sperm cells.

What are seminiferous tubules?

300
This hormone is released from the brain and stimulates the formation of the follicle.
What is FSH?
300
This is the word we use to describe when stem cells turn on and off specific genes in order to become specialized.
What is differentiation?
300
Fraternal twins form from how many eggs and how many sperm?
What is two eggs and two sperm?
400
These are the two hormones that are responsible for thickening the uterine lining during the menstrual cycle.
What is estrogen and progesterone?
400

Why does seminal fluid contains a lot of fructose?

Sperm cells need energy to swim!

400
This is the hormone secreted by the corpus luteum that continues to increase the lining of the uterus.
What is progesterone?
400
This structure contains both mother and fetal blood vessels and helps the mother provide nutrients and oxygen to the growing baby.
What is the placenta?
400
Avoiding smoking and drinking is the MOST important during the first several months of development because...?
All of the baby's internal organs are developing at that time.
500

The narrow opening at the base of the uterus.

What is the cervix?

500
These are the THREE structures that produce seminal fluid.
What is the prostate, the Cowper's gland, and seminal vesicles?
500
This hormone is what causes ovulation to occur.
What is LH?
500
This is the process by which nutrients and oxygen get from the mother's blood vessels to the baby's.
What is diffusion?
500
This is another name for a fertilized egg.
What is a zygote?
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