Female reproductive system

Question 1

What hormones are responsible for the secondary sexual characterstics?

Answer 1

progesterone and estrogen

Question 2

What is an oocyte describe it’s structure and where it is found?

Answer 2

It is a partially developed egg surrounded by supported cells and in the ovaries layer packed with follicles each consisting of an oocyte.

Question 3

How are ovaries held?

Answer 3

By ligaments

Question 4

The uterus has an inner lining describe this inner lining and how it has an impact during a pregnancy.

Answer 4

The inner lining is an endometrium which is supplied with blood vessels these blood vessels contain nutrients during a pregnancy the baby would receive it’s nutrients from that blood vessel.

Question 5

Why does the vagina is considered elastic?

Answer 5

The vagina is the birth site, it requires to expand and stretch having the elastic tissue help to recoil after a stretch.

Question 6

What helps the egg moves down the duct to the uterus (womb)?

Answer 6

cilia and the wave-like contractions

Question 7

Name the gonads, gametes and processes of gametogenesis of human reproduction.

Answer 7

Male:

Gonads
testis
Gametes
spermatozoa
Gametogenesis:
spermatogenesis

Female:
Gonads
ovaries
Gametes
the ova
Gametogenesis:
Oogenesis