BIOD 152 Exam 6
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BIOD 152 Exam 6
- The female reproductive system includes what internal organs?
Answer: the ovaries, the oviducts (fallopian or uterine tubes), the uterus, and the vagina.
- What is ovulation? How often does it occur?
Answer: The release of a mature egg; occurs approximately every 28 days.
- What is the ovarian cycle?
Answer: An egg is released from the ovarian follicle.
- What does the ovarian follicle become after ovulation?
Answer: The corpus luteum
- What is the purpose of the corpus luteum?
Answer: It helps maintain pregnancy if an egg is fertilized; if not, it disintegrates.
- What are the three sections and three coats of the oviducts?
Answer: Infundibulum, ampulla and isthmus and three coats: the outer serous coat, the middle muscular coat, and an inner mucosa coat.
- What is the function of the fimbriae?
Answer: capture an egg from the ovary at the time of ovulation. When an egg (oocyte) bursts from a follicle within an ovary during ovulation, it is swept into an oviduct
- An egg is most often fertilized in what region?
Answer: ampulla
- Describe the shape and location of the uterus.
Answer: a hollow, thick-walled muscular organ shaped like an inverted pear connecting the uterine tubes and the vagina and, in a forward-tilted position between the bladder and the rectum.
- What are the three layers of the uterus?
Answer: The outer serous perimetrium, the middle muscular myometrium and the inner glandular endometrium.
- What is the function of the myometrium?
Answer: It expands during pregnancy to hold the growing fetus and contracts during labor to push the baby out of the uterus.
- What are the three regions of the uterus?
Answer: fundus, body, cervix
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