01:830:331 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vaginal Bleeding, Visual Acuity, Goal Setting
24 Oct 2016
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A type of asexual reproduction in which the offspring develops from unfertilized eggs. You don"t need to find a mate (can reproduce by yourself) You can do it very early on after birth (don"t need to mature sexually) If humans did this, we would all have one immune system and one disease would kill everyone. Danger for survival, would lack genetic variation: describe the main steps on a sperm"s journey towards the egg. Include: hurdles or difficulties it faces; ways in which the woman"s body helps it along; the egg"s role in determining which sperm is successful. Vagina hostile environment, so hard for sperm to last long time. Sperm must get through the cervical mucus (hurdle) but during ovulation the mucus becomes waterier and makes channels for the sperm (help) Goes to the uterus, (6 in. away from the egg, uterus pushes sperm up to fallopian tubes)
