Male Reproductive

Question 0

What do seminiferous tubules produce

Answer 0

Spermatozoa

Question 1

What do interstitial cells (leydig) cells produce

Answer 1

Testicular androgens

Question 2

What is the path of the seminiferous tubules to the epididymus

Answer 2

Straight tubules
Rete testis
Ductuli efferentes
Epididymus

Question 3

What epithelium lines the seminiferous tubules

Answer 3

Complex stratified epithelium

Question 4

At are the two types of cells in the seminiferous epithelium

Answer 4

Supporting cells (serotoli cells)
Cells of spermatic lineage

Question 5

What is the process by which spermatozoa are formed

Answer 5

Spermatogenesis

Question 6

Spermatogenesis begins with what cell

Answer 6

Spermatogonium

Question 7

What is the process of cells in spermatogenesis

Answer 7

Spermatogonium 
Type a spermatogonia
Type b spermatogonia 
Primary spermatocytes
Secondary spermatocytes 
Spermatids

Question 8

What are the largest cells of spermatic lineage

Answer 8

Primary spermatocytes

Question 9

What is the genetic number for primary spermatocytes

Answer 9

2n 4d

Question 10

What is the genetic number of secondary spermatocytes

Answer 10

1n 2d

Question 11

What is the genetic number of spermatids

Answer 11

1n 1d

Question 12

What are the three stages of spermiogenesis

Answer 12

Golgi
Acrosomal
Maturation

Question 13

What happens in the Golgi phase of spermiogenesis

Answer 13

Single Acrosome forms

Flagellar axoneme begins to form

Question 14

What happens in the acrosomal phase

Answer 14

Acrosome is formed
Mitochondria aggregate around middle piece
Flagella is formed

Question 15

What happens in the maturation phase

Answer 15

Excess cytoplasm is shed

Spermatozoa are released

Question 16

What does testicular fluid contain

Answer 16

Steroids
Proteins
Ions
Androgen binding protein

Question 17

True or false: Serotoli cells divide during the reproductive period

Answer 17

False

Question 18

What type of junctions bind serotoli cells

Answer 18

Occluding and gap

Question 19

Sertoli cells separate the seminiferous tubule into what two compartments

Answer 19

Basal compartment

Ad luminal compartment

Question 20

What three things do Sertoli cells release

Answer 20

Fluid for spermatozoa
Androgen binding protein
Inhibit

Question 21

What does androgen binding protein do

Answer 21

Concentrates testosterone

Question 22

What controls ABP

Answer 22

FSH and testosterone

Question 23

What does inhibin do

Answer 23

Suppresses FSH

Question 24

What does anti-mullerian hormone do?

Answer 24

Promotes regression of Müllerian ducts in male fetuses

Question 25

Interstitial tissue is important site for ________ production

Answer 25

Androgen

Question 26

Mitochondria and SER in leydig cells produce what

Answer 26

Testosterone

Question 27

What stimulates leydig cells

Answer 27

Luteinizing hormone

Question 28

What are the three mechanisms that maintain testicular temperature at 35C

Answer 28

Cremaster muscle contraction Evaporative cooling Venous plexus/testicular artery exchange

Question 29

Where are the tubuli recti in the male reproductive system

Answer 29

Join seminiferous tubule loop to the rete testis

Question 30

What type of epithelium is in the tubuli recti

Answer 30

Cuboidal with dense connective tissue

Question 31

Where is the rete testis in the male reproductive system

Answer 31

Connects tubuli recti to Ductuli efferentes

Question 32

What type of epithelium is in the rete testis

Answer 32

Cuboidal

Question 33

Where is the ductuli efferentes

Answer 33

From rete testis to the epididymus

Question 34

What is the epithelium in the Ductuli efferentes

Answer 34

Nonciliated cuboidal cells + Ciliated cells (beat toward epididymis)

Question 35

The ductus epididymus forms what part of the epididymus

Answer 35

Body and tail

Question 36

What type of epithelium makes up the ductus epididymus

Answer 36

Pseudostratified columnar epithelium with stereo cilia

Question 37

What does the vas deferens connect

Answer 37

Epididymus to the prostatic urethra

Question 38

What type of epithelium does the vas deferens have

Answer 38

Pseudostratified columnar epithelium

Question 39

How does the sperm get through the vas deferens

Answer 39

Three longitudinal layers of muscle produce peristaltic contractions

Question 40

What type of epithelium does the seminal vesicle have

Answer 40

Cuboidal or Pseudostratified with secretory granules

Question 41

What do seminal vesicles secrete

Answer 41

70% seminal fluid (sperm activating substances )

Question 42

What type of epithelium is the prostate

Answer 42

Cuboidal or Pseudostratified columnar

Question 43

What does the prostate gland secrete and STORE

Answer 43

Prostatic fluid

Question 44

Prostate cancer usually involves enlargement of what portion of the prostate

Answer 44

Periphery

Question 45

Benign prostate enlargement involves what part of the prostate

Answer 45

Central portion (near urethra)

Question 46

Where are the bulbourethral glands in a male

Answer 46

Proximal to the membranous portion of the urethra

Question 47

What type of glands are the bulbourethral glands

Answer 47

Tubuloalveolar

Question 48

What type of epithelium do bulbourethral glands have

Answer 48

Simple cuboidal epithelium

Question 49

The penile urethra is lined by what type of epithelium

Answer 49

Pseudostratified columnar becomes stratified squamous