Repro Flashcards
Preformationism
Organisms develop from mini versions of themselves
Epigenesis
Organisms arose through series of stages produced from an undifferentiated mass
Aristotle
Described concepts of oviparity, viviparity, ovoviviparity
Harvey
‘Ex ovo omnia’ = everything comes from the egg
Steno
‘Testicles’ of woman were analogous to ovaries of the dogfish
Swammardam
All animals derive from eggs laid by same species. Spontaneous generation
de Graaf
Described follicle rupture in rabbits
Hooke
Coined the term ‘cell’
van Leeuwenhoek
Discovery of sperm
Bonnet
Described parthenogenesis in aphids
Spallanzani
Physical contact between sperm and egg
First AI in dogs
von Baer
First to observe & describe the oocyte
Newport
First reported entry of sperm into frog egg
Hertwig
Sperm-egg pronuclear fusion in sea urchin
Fol
One sperm required for fertilisation
Epididymis
Maturation of sperm during transit
Tube located behind each testis
Bulbourethral (Cowper’s) gland
Produces pre-ejaculate fluid to flush urine residue from urethra
Cryptorchidism
Failure of testes to descend when:
- Thermal needs not met
- Endocrine function not impaired
- Normal sexual drive but sterile
Cremaster muscle
Muscle that moves testes closer/further away from body to aid thermoregulation
Pampiniform Plexus
Network of small veins, countercurrent heat exchanger, cooling blood in adjacent arteries
Tunica Dartos
Muscles under scrotal skin
Contraction/relaxation in response to changes in scrotal skin temperature
Rete tubules
Transport newly formed sperm from testes to head of epididymis
Seminiferous tubules
Site of sperm production in testes
Leydig cells
Interstitial cells that produce testosterone
vas deferens
Duct transporting sperm from the tail of the epididymis to accessory sex glands
Vesicular glands (seminal vesicles)
Paired accessory sex glands responsible for major liquid portion of the final ejaculate
Libido
Sexual drive
Regulated by testosterone
Secretion of testosterone by Leydig cells controlled by:
LH from anterior pituitary
Production of spermatozoa controlled by:
Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) through the action of Sertoli cells
Seminiferous tubules 2 cell types:
- Sertoli cells
- Developing sperm cells
Sertoli cells
Located in seminiferous tubules in the testes. Support developing sperm cells
Spermacytogenesis
Cell division
Spermatogonia
Undifferentiated male germ cell
Gonadotropin (GnRH)
Collective term for a hormone that stimulates ovaries, testes or both
Produced by hypothalamus
Stimulates release of FSH and LH from anterior pituitary
Hypothalamus
Part of the brain that secretes GnRH to the Anterior Pituitary
3 phases of Spermatogenesis
61 days in bull
- Proliferation (21d)
- Meiosis (23d)
- Differentiation (17d)
Proliferation
21d
Mitotic divisions of spermatogonia