DEVELOPMENT: Reproductive Development Flashcards
Male and Female reproductive systems and the urinary system develop from the same early structures:
●Urogenital ridge
●Mesonephric duct
Some structures that form within the urogenital ridge are specific to the formation of the reproductive system :
●Paramesonephric ducts
●Genital ridge
In order for gonads to form, gonads need to be populated with?
Germ cells
Cells that will produce sperm and locates are called?
Germ cells
Germ cells migrate along the hindgut from the……. into…..
Posterior yolk sac
Dorsal mesentery
Germ cells populate gonadal rudiments at?
5th week
Germ cells populate the genital ridge at?
6th week
Ternato a formation is due to?
Migration of germ cells to wrong place
Lack of primordial germ cells (OGC) causes lack of?
Gonads
No PGC = no gonads
No gonads=
No development of the reproductive system
Paramesonephric ducts form at time of?
Primordial germ cells (PGC) or Germ cell migration
Paramesonephric ducts form by
Invagination of the urogenital ridge surface
In females invagination of paramesonephric ducts form?
Uterine tubes or degenerate
Degeneration or maintenance of paramesonephric ducts is dependent on hormonal influence
True or false
Growth of irregular projections into mesenchyme of gonadal:
●Populated by PGCs
●Eventually differentiate into ova and sperm
●In all early embryos these cords are connected to the surface epithelium
●At this stage it is impossible to differentiate between the male & female gonad and the gonad is therefore known as the ?
INDIFFERENT GONAD
What kind of gonads will develop depends on ?
Primary sex determination
Whether we carry X and Y chromosomes or two X chromosomes usually determines?
Sexual phenotype
The male phenotype is usually associated with
XY
The female phenotype is usually associated with?
XX
Which chromosome completes ovarian formation?
X
Which chromosome drives Testes formation?
Y
Development of one phenotype suppresses development of the other.
True or false?
True
Ie: get development of oocytes or sperm
What does hypothesis I say determines sexual phenotype?
Presence of Y makes male
What does Hypothesis II say determines sexual phenotype?
No second X makes a male
Turner’s syndrome in gametes?
XO
Female
Trisomy X in gametes
XXX
Female
Kinefelter syndrome in gametes
XXY
Male