In Your Fertility Clinic, You Look at the Lab Results

Multiple Choice

In your fertility clinic, you look at the lab results of a young man. He has a prostate gland the size of a golf ball, a fructose-rich semen, and 10 million sperm per ml. His sperm consist of little more than DNA, mitochondria, and a flagellum, with almost no cytoplasm. Also, he has follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) in his bloodstream. Which of these is the likely cause of his fertility problems?

A) enlarged prostate gland
B) fructose in the semen
C) sperm count
D) sperm morphology
E) FSH and LH