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• what are the physiological cycles?

  ovarian cycle and menstrual cycle
• when she no longer ovulates, what are the hormones that declines?

  estrogen and progesterone
• the follicular phase begins when the anterior pituitary gland releases gonadotropins follicle-stimulating hormones and luteinizing hormones into the bloodstream
• in an ovary, egg cells mature within cluster of cells that surrounds an immature egg cell and provides it with nutrients and protection called follicles
• Menstrual cycle occurs in the uterus to prepare it for implantation
• The sex hormone that signals the body to prepare for fertilization


  progesterone
• what is the monthly release of an ovum from the ovary


  ovulation
• How long does the menstrual cycle last?

  14 days
• how long does the ovarian cycle last?

  28 days
• Female reproductive structures that produces eggs


  ovaries
• composed of 2 ovaries, vagina, fallopian tubes, uterus

  female reproductive system
• if ovum is not yet fertilized at 24-48 hours, it dies
• eggs produced in a lifetime

  2,000,000
• it is where ovaries are located

  inside the abdominal cavity and slightly below the waist
• triggers the developmental fem characteristics

  estrogen
• AIDS

  acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
• virus caused by aids?

  human immunodeficiency virus
• when were aids reported?

  1981
• cure for aids

  none
• how is aids transmittable?

  1. contact through bodily fluids
  2. sex
  3. sharing of contaminated needles
  4. birth from an infected mother
• cause of gonorrhea

  Neisseria gonorrhoeae
• what does gonorrhea affect and it results in pus

  1. vaginal lining
  2. male urethra
  3. rectem
  4. eyes
  5. joints
• treatment for gonorrhea

  antibiotics
• cause of syphilis

  Treponema pallidum
• what painless sore develops at the site of infection? typically genitals, rectum, or mouth. (syphilis)


  chancre
• contracted by babies from infected mother (syphilis)


  congenital syphilis
• Cause of herpes

  herpes simplex virus-2
• treatment for herpes

  none
• system made up of all anatomical organs for sex reprod

  reproductive system
• fertilized egg


  zygote
• prod by male repro system


  sperm
• loc of testes/scrotum

  outside abdominal cavity
• oval-shaped organs inside scrotum


  testes
• where sperm are produced


  seminiferous tubules
• parts of sperm, what is the head made out of

  acrosome
• this stores enzymes needed to penetrate an egg cell during fertilization


  acrosome
• what midpiece contain


  mitochondria
• powerful flagellum that enables sperm to move


  tail
• how many adult male prod sperm cells per day

  several hundred million
• produced by leydig cells that is found between seminiferous tubes


  testosterone