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| What are primary oocytes? |
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| What is each oocyte surrounded by? |
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| Follicle (granulosa) cells |
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| What is a primordial follicle? |
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| oocyte and its follicle cells |
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| What controls the maturation process of oocytes? |
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| Reproductive hormones, FSH and LH |
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| Where are FSH and LH secreted? |
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| in the anterior pituitary |
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| follicle-stimulating hormone |
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| What kind of molecules does the oocyte accumulate as it matures? |
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| energy-storing, building, organelles |
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| What are teh energy-storing molecules accumulated of teh maturing oocyte? |
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| What are the build molecules accumulated? |
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| What are the cell organelles accumulated? |
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| Ribosomes and mitochondria |
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| What are the accumulated molecules needed for? |
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| early stages of embryonic development |
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| What happens simultaneously as the oocyte accumulates molecules? |
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| Follicle cells around it divide frequently |
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| What happens as a result of the follicles dividing frequently? |
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| Rapid increasing in their number and increasing the diameter of the follicles |
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| What are teh growing follicles called? |
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| What are the fluid filled cavities primary follicles develop called? |
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| What are primary follicles called after developing an antrum? |
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| What happens to the follicle of the oocyte completing the maturation process? |
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| What is characteristic of a mature follicle? |
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| A huge antrum that makes it protrude a little from the surface of the ovary |
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| What happens a day or two after complete maturation of the oocyte? |
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| Follicle gently bursts and oocyte is propelled out of the ovary |
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| Rupture of a follicle and the propulsion of the oocyte out of the ovary |
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| What happens after the follicle bursts? |
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| Oocyte is swept into the fallopian tube |
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| What sweeps the oocyte into the fallopian tube? |
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| What happens to the empty follicle? |
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| Heal to form a new structure |
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| What does the empty follicle heal into? |
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| What happens to the follicle cells after forming a corpus luteum? |
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| Cells expand greatly and being producing increase levels of reproductive hormones, estrogen and progesterone |
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| What happens to the corpus luteum of the oocyte is fertilized? |
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| persist through much of the pregnancy |
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| What happens to the corpus luteum if the oocyte is not fertilized? |
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| it will degenerate towards the end of the menstrual cycle |
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| What does a mature sperm mature from? |
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| What is teh shape of a spermatocyte? |
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| Where does teh maturation of sperm occur? |
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| walls of numerous seminiferous tubules that make up the tissue of the testes |
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| What happens after the sperm are mature? |
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| sperm are released into lumens of the tubules and travel out of the testes |
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