Female Anatomy
This structure is responsible for producing an egg cell.
What is the ovary?
This structure produces both sperm cells and testosterone.
What are the testes?
This word means the release of the egg from the ovary.
What is ovulation?
This is what we call the process by which the embryo begins to divide.
What is mitosis? (or cleavage)
This is a strategy of reproduction where the male and female do not need to come in contact with one another for the zygote to form.
What is external fertilization?
This is the site of implantation of an embryo.
What is the uterus?
What is the only part of the male gamete that contributes to the next generation?
What is the genetic material? (or chromosomes or nucleus)
Hormones from this organ "communicate" with the ovaries to release an egg.
What is the brain?
This is what the overall cell division looks like at the time it can implant in the uterus.
What is a hollow ball of cells?
This strategy of reproduction has a high rate of success and requires fewer gametes to be successful.
What is internal fertilization?
This is the site of fertilization.
What is the Fallopian tube? (or oviduct)
This is how many sperm cells are made in the process of meiosis?
What is four?
This organ releases hormones that communicate with the uterus.
What is the ovaries?
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?
Fraternal twins form from how many eggs and how many sperm?
What is two eggs and two sperm?
These are the two hormones released by the ovaries that are responsible for thickening the uterine lining during the menstrual cycle.
What is estrogen and progesterone?
How do sperm travel to the egg?
What is swim? (or, with flagella)
This happens to the uterine lining if implantation does not occur.
What is "it sheds"? (or menstruation)
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?
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.
This is the number of egg cells that are typically released each cycle.
What is one?
What is the testes?
How long does it take (on average) for the human female reproductive cycle to complete?
What is 28 days?
This is the process by which nutrients and oxygen get from the mother's blood vessels to the baby's.
What is diffusion?
This is another name for a fertilized egg.
What is a zygote?