ANFS101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Posterior Pituitary, Follicle-Stimulating Hormone, Menstrual Synchrony
16 May 2016
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These questions do not necessarily cover all topics and questions on the exam but they should help you focus your efforts. If you cannot find the answers in your notes, this is where the text will help you fill-in information that you may have missed in lecture. Again i will not put information from the text that i did not mention in lecture on the test, but the text can help with clarifying your answers to these questions if your notes are not complete. Answer for gnrh, fsh, lh, estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin: gnrh: From hypothalamus to anterior pituary gland: fsh (follicle stimulating hormone) Inhibits follicles and maintains pregnancy: oxytocin (parturition) Needs to be lower to facilitate sperm and testosterone production. External cremaster muscle-raises testes when cold, descends when hot. Tunica dartos muscle- can hold close to body. Postpartum interval is the time from between parturition and estrus. Single bearing animals (i. e. humans) have no uterine horns or they"re poorly developed.
