PORTAGE LEARNING BIOD 152 A&P 2 LAB 3
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LAB PRINCIPLES
AND SYSTEMS REVIEW
◉ What is ovulation? How often does it occur?
Answer: The release of a mature egg; occurs approximately every 28
days.
◉ What is the ovarian cycle?
Answer: An egg is released from the ovarian follicle.
◉ What does the ovarian follicle become after ovulation?
Answer: The corpus luteum
◉ What is the purpose of the corpus luteum?
Answer: It helps maintain pregnancy if an egg is fertilized; if not, it
disintegrates.
◉ What are the three sections and three coats of the oviducts?
,Answer: Infundibulum, ampulla and isthmus and three coats: the
outer serous coat, the middle muscular coat, and an inner mucosa
coat.
◉ What is the function of the fimbriae?
Answer: capture an egg from the ovary at the time of ovulation.
When an egg (oocyte) bursts from a follicle within an ovary during
ovulation, it is swept into an oviduct
◉ An egg is most often fertilized in what region?
Answer: ampulla
◉ Describe the shape and location of the uterus.
Answer: a hollow, thick-walled muscular organ shaped like an
inverted pear connecting the uterine tubes and the vagina and, in a
forward-tilted position between the bladder and the rectum.
◉ What are the three layers of the uterus?
Answer: The outer serous perimetrium, the middle muscular
myometrium and the inner glandular endometrium.
◉ What is the function of the myometrium?
Answer: It expands during pregnancy to hold the growing fetus and
contracts during labor to push the baby out of the uterus.
, ◉ What are the three regions of the uterus?
Answer: fundus, body, cervix
◉ What is the fundus?
Answer: The height can be measured from the top of the pubic bone
during pregnancy to provide growth rates and a crude indication of
an abnormality (breech presentation or twins).
◉ What is the function of the cervix just prior to ovulation?
Answer: Just prior to ovulation, it softens and secretes mucus
allowing sperm better access to and viability within the uterus.
◉ What are the three layers of the vaginal wall?
Answer: An inner tissue layer, intermediate muscle layer and outer
tissue layer
◉ infundibulum
Answer: capture egg from ovary and sweep it into the oviduct by
fimbriae and cilia that line the oviducts
◉ isthmus
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY LAB PRINCIPLES
AND SYSTEMS REVIEW
◉ What is ovulation? How often does it occur?
Answer: The release of a mature egg; occurs approximately every 28
days.
◉ What is the ovarian cycle?
Answer: An egg is released from the ovarian follicle.
◉ What does the ovarian follicle become after ovulation?
Answer: The corpus luteum
◉ What is the purpose of the corpus luteum?
Answer: It helps maintain pregnancy if an egg is fertilized; if not, it
disintegrates.
◉ What are the three sections and three coats of the oviducts?
,Answer: Infundibulum, ampulla and isthmus and three coats: the
outer serous coat, the middle muscular coat, and an inner mucosa
coat.
◉ What is the function of the fimbriae?
Answer: capture an egg from the ovary at the time of ovulation.
When an egg (oocyte) bursts from a follicle within an ovary during
ovulation, it is swept into an oviduct
◉ An egg is most often fertilized in what region?
Answer: ampulla
◉ Describe the shape and location of the uterus.
Answer: a hollow, thick-walled muscular organ shaped like an
inverted pear connecting the uterine tubes and the vagina and, in a
forward-tilted position between the bladder and the rectum.
◉ What are the three layers of the uterus?
Answer: The outer serous perimetrium, the middle muscular
myometrium and the inner glandular endometrium.
◉ What is the function of the myometrium?
Answer: It expands during pregnancy to hold the growing fetus and
contracts during labor to push the baby out of the uterus.
, ◉ What are the three regions of the uterus?
Answer: fundus, body, cervix
◉ What is the fundus?
Answer: The height can be measured from the top of the pubic bone
during pregnancy to provide growth rates and a crude indication of
an abnormality (breech presentation or twins).
◉ What is the function of the cervix just prior to ovulation?
Answer: Just prior to ovulation, it softens and secretes mucus
allowing sperm better access to and viability within the uterus.
◉ What are the three layers of the vaginal wall?
Answer: An inner tissue layer, intermediate muscle layer and outer
tissue layer
◉ infundibulum
Answer: capture egg from ovary and sweep it into the oviduct by
fimbriae and cilia that line the oviducts
◉ isthmus
