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Final Exam
From ANS 316- Oregon State University
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 3
06/10/2013

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The pheromone induced effect in pigs where maintaining a boar next to a group of peri-pubertal gilts induced earlier puberty onset is an example of
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Vandenbergh effect
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In development of the male reproductive tract
Definition
Accessory sex glands develop from the urogenital sinus
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During fertilization
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  • Hyperactive motility develops in the oviduct
  • hyaluronidase assists sperm penetration of the cumulus oophorus
  • the sperm attaches to the oolemma at the equitorial segment
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Testosterone is.....
Definition
  • Usually reduced to hihyrdotestosterone
  • Produced by the leydig cells
  • maintains the latter stages of spermatogenesis
  • maintains growth and development of the accessory sex glands
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The only accessory gland that sperm actually enter, and are in fact stored, is...
Definition
Ampulla
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The most exclusive component of the blood-testis barrier is...
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Sertoli cell tight junction
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During spermiogenesis, the acrosome develops from....
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The golgi apparatus
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Indicate a species that possesses a bicournate tract, diffuse and epitheliochorial placentation, a spring-summer breeding season and does not require progesterone during the last third of gestation for maintenance of pregnancy
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Mare
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Oxytocin...
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  • Increases myometrial contractility
  • responsible for the milk ejection reflex
  • is a hypothalamic hormone
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Development of primary and secondary follicles....
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occurs during both pre- and postpubertal life
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During oogenesis for most species....
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  • A secondary oocyte is ovulated
  • activation is required for completion of meiosis
  • terminal oogenetic stage is the ootid
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The hormone responsible for maintenance of spermatogenesis up to the secondary spermatoctye....
Definition
FSH
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In the model proposed for regulation of the breeding season the pivotal factor is a change in the sensitivity of the hypothalamic....
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tonic center to estradiol
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Capacitation...
Definition
  • is reversible
  • results in less cholesterol in the sperm plasma membrane
  • occurs in the uterus
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Indicate a species that is hemochorial, possesses a duplex tract, a reflex ovulator, and requires luteal progesterone for maintenance of pregnancy to term
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Rabbit
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Receptors for this pituitary hormone increase in the pregnany cows endometrium and participat ein prolonging the lifespan of the CL
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Prolactin
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Indicate the correct route for sperm transport
Definition

Seminiferous tubule

 

tubuli recti

 

rete testes

 

efferent ducts

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What follicle stages can a primary oocye be found
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Primary through graffian
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The portion of the broad ligament that directly supports the oviduct
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Mesosalpinx
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When comparing the estrous and menstrual cycles
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the follicular and luteal phases are of equal duration in the menstrual cycle
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During embryo development
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  • Determination occurs at the morula stage
  • inner cell mass and trophectoderm appear at the blastocyst stage
  • Totipotency is maintained until atleast the eight-cell stage
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Indicate the species that possesses a bicournate tract, epithelichorial and diffuse plancentation and requires luteal progesterone for maintenance of pregnancy to term
Definition
Sow
Term
Of the four fetal membrane/ fluid compartments listed, which appears first
Definition
Yolk sac cavity
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In the two-cell, two-hormone model for estradiol production in the graafian follicle....
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grnaulosa cells possess aromatase and respond to FSH
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In rats and mice, maintenance of the CL during pregnancy is due to....
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Prolactin for the first half, placental lactogen for the second half
Term
The zona pellucida first appears at what stage?
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Secondary
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The anterior lobe of the pituitary is comprised of...
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pars distalis and pars tuberalis
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Proposed luteolytic mechanisms include....
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  • apoptosis
  • hypoxia due to vasoconstriction
  • interruption of the PKA system
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The neurohyopophysis is comprised of....
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Meidan eminence, infundibular stalk, pars nervosa
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PKC system involves....
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  • Phospholipase C
  • Diacylglycerol
  • Polyphosphoinositides
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When an embryo enters diapause....
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  • does not attach to the endometrium
  • has low metabolic rate
  • has reduced RNA synthesis
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A pseudostratified columnar epithelium can be found in....
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the vas deferns
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Cortisol causes the placenta to shift from progesterone to esrtadiol production because it stimulates synthesis of which enzyme involved in estradiol production
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  • 17-20 lyase
  • 17 alpha- hydroxylase
  • aromatase
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Consider a woman who had a primordial follicle pool of 5 million oocytes and had 500 menstrual cycles before entering menopause. If she had 5 children, the pergentage of her metaphase II ooctyes that completed oogenesis is
Definition
1.0%
Term
In the females listed, which one has the longest estrus
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Queen
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The human would be classified as....
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spontaneous ovulating, hemochorial, deciduate and discoidal placenta
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Increased tonic plasma [FSH] and [LH] during proestrus....
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  • cause estradiol to reach threshold
  • stimulate androgen production
  • stimulate granulose cell proliferation
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Indicate a species with a bicournate tract, synepitheliochorial and cotylendonary placentation, fall breeding season, and requires luteal progesterone for maintenance of pregnancy to term
Definition
Goat
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The glands of bartholin are located where
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vestibule
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In most sterile-mated alpacas, if the right uterine horn was removed on day 4 after ovulation and her ovaries examined 10 days later, then one would expect to see CL on...
Definition
neither ovary
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Exposing a female to androgens would result in....
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Development of Mullerian and Wolffian ducts
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During ovulation, granulosa cells....
Definition
  • start producing progesterone
  • stop producing OMIF
  • release plasminogen activator
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An amniochorion can be found in the fetal membranes of...
Definition
Pig
Term
Sperm in the perivitelline space are know as...
Definition
Supplementary
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A distinguishing feature of this organ is the presence of crypts in the mucosa
Definition
Cervix
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LH is...
Definition
  • Luteotropic
  • stimulates testosterone production
  • is ovulatory
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The blind pouch located in the vestibule and within the urethral orifice
Definition
suburethral diverticulum
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Follicle cells that surround the oocyte in the primordial follicle constitute...
Definition
stratum granulosum
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Anovulatory postpartum estrus
Definition
Sows
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The ductus venosus....
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is a fetal blood vessel that shunts blood from the umbilical vein to the post vena cava
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PGF-2alpha...
Definition
luteolytic in all livestock species
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Autocrine effect
Definition
A cell producing a factor that can work back on itself to stimulate a response
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Spermiogenesis
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No cell divisions
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Segment of the epididymis involved in sperm storage
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cauda
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when is the greatest number of primordial follicles found?
Definition
Fetal life
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Which fluid has lower protein?
Definition
Allantoic
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Similarity between cow during lactational anestrus amd prepubertal ewe
Definition
Reduced levels of LH
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The lifespan of epididymal sperm is dependent on....
Definition
Testosterone
Term
Castration will cause FSH levels....
Definition
Increase in blood
Term
Receptors for androgens and estrogens are located....
Definition
Nucleoplasm
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Naturally delayed implantation
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Species in which gestation can be reduced by manipulating the photoperiod
Term
Ejaculation is facilitated by contraction of...
Definition
urethralis muscle
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Reason why the GnRH surge center develops in the female in the presence of ovarian estradiol
Definition
Because alpha-fetoprotein binds estradiol and prevents it from entering the brain
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Fetuses with atrophied pituitary glands generally have....
Definition
longer gestations
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Activin selectively causes....
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FSH release
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The depression in the sphenoid bone where the pituitary is located is called....
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Sella turcica
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Typical arrangement of smooth muscle in reproductive tract
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Outer longitudinal

 

inner circular

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Relative plasma progesterone concentrations during pregnancy and pseudopregnancy in the queen
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Relative fetal cortisol, plasma progesterone and estrogen concentrations during parturition in the cow
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Definition
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Relative progesterone and estrogen concentrations during pregnancy in humans
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Relative progesterone concentrations in the pregnant and non pregnant dog
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This placental type is characterized by chorionic capillaries immersed in endometrial blood. Observed in last trimester of only a few species
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Hemoendothelial in rabbit
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