Female Reproductive System Flashcards
It’s an Organ that Contains Egg Cells and is also Responsible for Producing Female Sex hormones.
Ovaries.
What are the 2 Female sex hormones? What are their Function?
Estrogen and Progesterone . Estrogen maintains the menstrual cycle of females and it’s also responsible for developing the females secondary features like breast and hips. Progesterone smoothens the flow of the labor.
It’s responsible for development and Nourishment of the female Gametes. It’s also responsible for maintaining necessary conditions for fertilization to occur.
The Female Reproductive System
It’s an another term for fertilized egg.
Zygote
What are the 5 stages of reproduction?
Production of Egg cells or Ova, Sperm and Egg cell meet, Fertilization, Development of Zygote, and Production of newborn offspring.
It’s an elastic muscular canal that connects the external reproductive system to cervix. It’s naturally acidic
Vagina
It’s a muscle that holds the fetus during pregnancy. It expands when the baby is ready to be born.
Cervix
Why females isn’t recommended to use regular soap or shampoo to wash their vagina?
Regular soaps or shampoo removes or reduces the acidic traits of a vagina that protects it from bacterial infestations.
It’s a mucus that facilitate the transport and nourishment of the sperm to aid the fertilization.
Cervical Mucus
It’s a hollow muscular organ that lies between the urinary bladder and the rectum. It has a very soft lining that holds the fertilized egg and nurtures it until it becomes
a fetus.
Uterus
It’s connected to ovaries and uterus. It transports the egg cells or ova to uterus.
Fallopian Tube
What are the 3 walls or layers of the uterus? What is the layer that sheds off during menstruation.
Perimetrium, Myometrium, and Endometrium. Endometrium sheds off during menstruation.
What are the 4 parts of external reproductive system? What are their functions?
Labia Majora, Labia Minora, Clitoris, and Mons Pubis. Labia Majora outside layer of vagina, it protects all the organs in the reproductive system. Labia Minora internal part. Mons Pubis, fatty flesh part of vagina and produces pubic hair.
What is the type of gametogenesis in female organisms?
oogenesis
