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Exam 6 P 2
Reproductive system
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 2
04/26/2010

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During arousal what type of reflex promotes the release of nitric oxide?
Definition
parasympathetic
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Nitric oxide caused the tissue to fill with...
Definition
blood
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The expansion of the corpora cavernosa compresses...
Definition
drainage veins are compressed and blood flow is slowed and boner stays
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Erection is iniated by what sexual stimuli?
Definition
Erotic sights, sounds,smells.
touch and mechanical stimulation
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Erections can be inhibited or induced by...
Definition
emotional or higher mental activity
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Sympathetic nerves cause what four things at during the time of ejaculation?
Definition
1. Reproductive ducts and accesory organs to spill their contents
2. bladder sphincter to contract not releasing any urine
3. bulbospongius goes through rapid contractions
4. semen propelled from urethra
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Crossing over takes place in
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prophase 1
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Spermatogenesis defintion
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Sequence of events that produces sperm in the seminerferous tubules of the testes
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When do chromosomes replicate?
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Prior to meisis 1 in interphase
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Nuclear envelope disappears in which phase?
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meiosis 1
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Nuclear envelope reappears in the...
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telphase stage
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What two tasks does meisosis accomplish?
Definition
Genetic variability and reduces chromosome number by half?
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What three thing regulate sperm production?
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hypothalmus, anterior pituitary, and the testes
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Ovaries create female gametes...
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ova
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Accesory ducts in females include...
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uterine tube, uterus, and vagina
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Internal genitalia for females includes
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ovaries and the internal ducts
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External genitalia includes..
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external sex organs
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The ovaries are...
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paired organs on each side of the uterus held in place by several ligaments
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What ligaments hold the ovaries in place?
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ovarian, suspensory, mesovarium
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The broad ligament contains what other two ligaments?
Definition
suspensory, mesovarium
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The ovaries receieve blood from...
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the ovarian arteries and ovarian branch of the uterine artery
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What surrounds the ovaries?
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tunica albuginea
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What is embedded in the ovary cortex?
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ovarian follicles
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The follicles in the ovarian cortex contan immature eggs called...
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oocytes
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Cells that suround the oocyte are called
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follicle cells and are (one layer thick) and granulosa (more than one layer thick)
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Primordial follicle
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one layer of squamous like follicle cells surrounds the oocyte
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Primary follicle
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two or more layers of cuoidal cells enclose the oocyte
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secondary follicle
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has a fluid space between granulosa cells that coalesces to form a central antrum
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Graafian follicle
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secondary follicle at itsmost mature stage that bulges from the surface of the ovary
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Ovulation
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ejection of the oocyte from the ripening follicle
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corpus luteum
Definition
ruptured follicle after ovulation
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