ANBI 139 LECTURE #12 EXAM
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What are the major four bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections of humans? - Answer
Chlamydia, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chancroid
What is the difference between Gonorrhea (The Clap) and HIV/AIDS? - Answer
Gonorrhea is caused by a bacterium and is treatable, HIV is a viral infection and is not
treatable
Which two vaccines can also be considered anti-cancer vaccines? - Answer Hepatitis B
(HBV) and Human papilloma virus (HPV
What are the three hallmarks of natural mammalian reproduction? - Answer Internal
fertilization, Placentation, Lactation
Are arranged marriages a relatively recent cultural invention? - Answer No, many
hunter gatherer people have arranged marriage
Low human fertility was proposed to be an adaptation for which unusual feature of
human sexuality? - Answer Pair Bonding
Which European Countries have catastrophically low fertility rates - Answer Portugal,
Spain, Italy, Greece
Which type of assisted reproduction was the first used in humans? - Answer Donor
sperm and insemination
What was the key technology required for IVF? - Answer Hormonal stimulation of
ovaries to cause super ovulation
What criteria about a male or his sperm may a female be selecting after copulation? -
Answer correct species, not a pathogen, high fitness male, compatible genome,
functional sperm
If (when) you were a sperm, at that scale how long a journey did you have to survive to
fertilize a egg - Answer 30cm for a 60 micrometer long sperm is is like 5km for a 1.6
meter human
What is the isthmus of the oviduct? - Answer The lower part of the oviduct that is narrow
and is potentially involved in sperm selection
What is misleading about the microphotograph of a human egg surrounded by a dozen
sperm? - Answer Human eggs are surrounded by a thick vestment (cumulus layer) and
at encounter there are just one sperm and one egg
What are Homeobox (HOX) Genes? - Answer A family of genes encoding transcription
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