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Female Reproductive Final Health: Questions & Correct Answers
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Female Reproductive Final Health: Questions & CorrectAnswers
The female reproductive system produces? Right Ans - Female sex
hormones and stores female reproductive cells.
What are female reproductive cells called? Right Ans - Ova ...or one ovum.
What does the uterus do? Right Ans - It protects the fertilized ovum from
conception until birth.
Describe the uterus. Right Ans - A hollow, muscular, pear shaped organ
inside a female's body.
Name the organs and glands in the female reproductive system. Right Ans -
Ovaries
Fallopian tubes
Uterus-cervix
Vagina
Define ovary Right Ans - The female sex gland that stores the ova and
produces female sex horomones
Define Fallopian tubes Right Ans - A pair of tubes with finger like
projections that draw in the ovum.
Define uterus-cervix Right Ans - The opening to the uterus is this cervix.
The uterus is the pear shaped hallow muscular organ.
Define vagina Right Ans - A muscular, elastic passageway that extends from
the uterus to the outside of the body.
What is a zygote? Right Ans - When a sperm is present in the
Fallopian tubes and a sperm unites with an ovum, fertilization happens and a
zygote is formed.
Where does the zygote go? Right Ans - It attaches itself to the uterine
(uterus) wall and begins to grow...into a baby
, What happens to the uterine wall when the zygote attaches? Right Ans - It
becomes rich in blood which enables the uterus to nourish the zygote.
What does the zygote become after it has attaches to the uterine wall and
begins to grow and develop? Right Ans - A fetus (baby)
When does the fetus leave the uterus? Right Ans - At birth
Explain menstruation (known as a period) Right Ans - Each month the
uterine walls prepare for pregnancy or for a zygote to attach. If it does not
happen the extra blood the walls built up are she through the cervix and
through the vagina. The shedding of the uterine wall is called menstruation, it
happens every month.
What is o'genesis? Right Ans - The process of the ovary making the egg.
Name the steps in the process of making the egg. Right Ans - 1. Primary cell
(0'ocyte) 46 chromosomes diploid 2N
2. Secondary cell (0''ocyte) 23 chromosomes Haploid N
3. Ovulation - discharge of the egg from the ovary with genetic blueprint of 23
chromosomes
Explain ovulation Right Ans - Discharge of the egg from the ovary with the
genetic blueprint of 23 chromosomes.
What is the gestation period? The amount of time it takes an egg to be
fertilized and grow into a baby? Right Ans - 280 days (2x28x10)
Ovarian Right Ans - Days 1 to 6 the egg is being formed in the ovar
Days 14 to 16 Right Ans - Ovulation egg breaks 48 hours to fertilize with
estrogen and progesterone
Days 17 to 31 Right Ans - Menstruation
What is a pap smear? Right Ans - When doctors take a sample of the tissue
in the cervix for cancer.
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