Final Review: Female Reproductive Physiology

Question 1

What cell in oogenesis is arrested during the diplotene stage of prophase?

Answer 1

Primary oocyte

Question 2

What is the oogonium and granulosa cells called?

Answer 2

Primordial follicle

Question 3

At puberty, one primary oocyte becomes secondary oocyte and is arrested in which phase of meiosis?

Answer 3

Metaphase of meiosis II

Question 4

T/F: Progesterone is at its highest concentration prior to ovulation.

Answer 4

False, estradiol

Progesterone is highest after ovulation

Question 5

T/F: FSH and LH spike immediately after ovulation.

Answer 5

False, immediately prior to ovulation

Question 6

What secretes oocyte maturation-inhibiting factor and nourishes the ovum throughout childhood?

Answer 6

Granulosa cells

Question 7

T/F: FSH is dominate during the first half of the menstrual cycle.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What is the term for the spindle-shaped cells around follicles that form multiple layers around each follicle?

Answer 8

Theca

Question 9

Early growth of follicle is stimulated mostly by?

Answer 9

FSH

Question 10

Progesterone is secreted by _____ cells and estrogen is secreted by _____ cells.

Answer 10

Theca cells

Granulosa cells

Question 11

Both theca and granulosa cells have binding sites for?

Answer 11

LH and LDL

Question 12

Theca cells do not have binding sites for?

Answer 12

FSH