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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? (mitosis)

100

This is the number of days for the menstrual cycle.

What is 28?

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 is the day upon which the egg is released.

What is day 14?

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 how many sperm cells are made during spermatogenesis.
What is four?
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

This is the opening to the uterus.

What is the cervix?

400
Why does seminal fluid contains a lot of glucose?
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 and keeps uterus from contracting if a fetus develops.

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

This is the specific name for meiosis which occurs in females.  

What is oogenesis?

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?