Exam 27: Reproduction and Embryonic Development

A decrease in ________ is followed by the gradual degradation of the corpus luteum.

Home pregnancy test kits work by detecting the presence of a hormone in a woman's urine. Recently developed test kits include an indicator of how long the women has been pregnant (1-2, 2-3, or 3+ weeks). The presence of ________ would indicate that a woman is pregnant, and ________ levels of this hormone would indicate that she is farther along in her pregnancy.

Which of the following events occurs first during embryonic development?

Which of the following statements about the reproductive system of human females is true?

After reading the paragraph below, answer the questions that follow. Brittany's family includes several individuals with a genetic disorder that affects primarily males. Her husband Tony has no history of the disease. They have decided that their best chance to have a healthy family is to have only daughters. Through a new type of assisted reproductive technology, it is possible to separate sperm that will produce sons from those that will produce daughters. Brittany's eggs will be fertilized by in vitro fertilization (IVF) with sperm that can produce only daughters. The developing female embryo can be implanted into her uterus to complete development normally. -For IVF to be completed successfully, several ________ should be removed from Brittany's ovaries.

Sterilization, in which sperm are surgically prevented from reaching the egg, is accomplished by

Which of the following statements regarding infertility and fertilization procedures is true?

Which of the following generates the ATP that is required for movement of the sperm's tail?

When does the human blastocyst implant in the wall of the uterus?

Which of the following processes is most similar to the process of cleavage?

The discovery of ________ explains embryonic pattern formation in a wide variety of organisms.

Which of the following serves as an impenetrable barrier that prevents more than one sperm from fertilizing an egg?

Fertilization in the female reproductive tract typically occurs in the

Which of the following produces a thick fluid containing fructose, which is used for energy by sperm?

Which of the following would be the most likely outcome if androgen receptors on cells in the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary suddenly could not bind androgen?

The acrosome of sperm cells contains an enzyme called hyaluronidase. Which of the following procedures would benefit from the addition of hyaluronidase?

Which of the following agents can cause an infection that can ultimately develop into pelvic inflammatory disease in women?

You are observing a developing embryo under a microscope and see that it has a space in the middle of the endoderm, but no features of a notochord are present. In which stage of development is this embryo?

Which of the following structures contributes to the structure of the placenta as well as completely surrounding the embryo?

The embryo implants in the ________.