Briefly describe follicular development during the human ovarian cycle and how this is coordinated with the uterine cycle.

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1. Briefly describe follicular development during the human ovarian cycle and how this is coordinated with the uterine cycle.

 

 

2. What assumptions are made if the number of CL is used as an indicator of reproductive rate?

 

 

3. What do you think would happen to a CL in a species that exhibits diapause (consult your textbook on this)?

    

4. Where are sperm made (be specific here) and what glands are important for making seminal fluid?

 

 

5. Why do the sperm “cork-screw” while swimming?

 

 

6. The menstrual cycle provides an example of how endocrine biological clocks regulate reproduction. Can you give TWO other examples?

 

 

 

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