B3.2.5 - Using Hormones To Treat Infertility

Question 1

What are causes of infertility?

Answer 1

Blocked sperm ducts, blocked fallopian tubes, a lack of production of mature eggs, failure to release an egg from the ovaries and not enough sperm being produces in the testes.

Question 2

What is fertility treatment?

Answer 2

Treating infertility using hormones

Question 3

Why can follicle-stimulating hormone be used as an artificial drug?

Answer 3

It can stimulate eggs to mature in ovaries and triggers oestrogen production

Question 4

What is in vitro fertilisation?

Answer 4

When doctors collect eggs from the ovary of the mother and sperm from the father to fertilise outside the body

Question 5

Is in vitro fertilisation reliable and what may it result in?

Answer 5

It is unreliable and may result in no pregnancies or multiple pregnancies

Question 6

What are the issues surrounding in vitro fertilisation?

Answer 6

It is unnatural, it allows infertile parents to conceive, it allows older parents to have children, it may result in multiple births, it is very expensive and it allows younger women to focus on their careers first