BMS 430 Final Exam Questions and
Answers
What is the Endocrinology of Reproduction?
✓ ~~~The control of sexual differentiation of the reproduction system.
Do cells know whether they are male or female?
✓ ~~~No they can not differentiate between the sex of the body
Where is the SRY gene located?
✓ ~~~It is on the Y chromosome.
What is the SRY gene?
✓ ~~~This helps produce the protein sex- determining region y protein that is involved in the
development of the male reproductive tract.
Are the brains of males and females the same?
✓ ~~~No they are not.
Which hormone causes the brain to become mascinualised?
✓ ~~~Estradiol
In male brains what kind of receptors are in the libido section of the brain?
✓ ~~~Estradiol Receptors,
What protein does the fetus make in their liver in order to protect all brains from
becoming masculinized by estradiol?
, ✓ ~~~alpha fetoprotein
Where in the brain can testosterone be converted into estradiol?
✓ ~~~Libido
What are the three sections of the brain?
✓ ~~~Libido, Aggression, Post Generator
What can not bind with alpha fetoprotein?
✓ ~~~Testosterone
Estrodiol in the brain?
✓ ~~~masculinizes the brain
DHT in the brain?
✓ ~~~feminizes the brain
Testosterone in the brain?
✓ ~~~both masculinizes or feminizes the brain.
In male fetal development of the leydig cells what does testosterone do?
✓ ~~~Developes the male tract, and converts to DTH which helps prodeuce male genitalia
In male adult development of the leydig cells what does testosterone do?
✓ ~~~Creates sperm, converts to DTH to maintain the male tract?
, In male fetal development of the seritoli cells what homrome is present?
✓ ~~~AMH
In male adult development of the seritoli cells what binds to the
anadrogin(testosterone)?
✓ ~~~ABP
Estrodiol creates what kind of brain?
✓ ~~~Male
AMH cause which tract to regresse?
✓ ~~~Female
When your genetics are XY with an SRY defect what happens with each of the
following tract, phenotype, brain, puberty, treatment?
✓ ~~~female ovary streak, female, female, nothing, female hormone therapy
When your genetics are XY with low to none 5 alpha reeducates what happens with
each of the following tract, phenotype, brain, puberty, treatment?
✓ ~~~male, female, male, male, male surgery
When your genetics are XY with no receptors for testosterone or DHT what happens
with each of the following tract, phenotype, brain, puberty, treatment?
✓ ~~~none does not form, female, male, nothing, male surgery
Answers
What is the Endocrinology of Reproduction?
✓ ~~~The control of sexual differentiation of the reproduction system.
Do cells know whether they are male or female?
✓ ~~~No they can not differentiate between the sex of the body
Where is the SRY gene located?
✓ ~~~It is on the Y chromosome.
What is the SRY gene?
✓ ~~~This helps produce the protein sex- determining region y protein that is involved in the
development of the male reproductive tract.
Are the brains of males and females the same?
✓ ~~~No they are not.
Which hormone causes the brain to become mascinualised?
✓ ~~~Estradiol
In male brains what kind of receptors are in the libido section of the brain?
✓ ~~~Estradiol Receptors,
What protein does the fetus make in their liver in order to protect all brains from
becoming masculinized by estradiol?
, ✓ ~~~alpha fetoprotein
Where in the brain can testosterone be converted into estradiol?
✓ ~~~Libido
What are the three sections of the brain?
✓ ~~~Libido, Aggression, Post Generator
What can not bind with alpha fetoprotein?
✓ ~~~Testosterone
Estrodiol in the brain?
✓ ~~~masculinizes the brain
DHT in the brain?
✓ ~~~feminizes the brain
Testosterone in the brain?
✓ ~~~both masculinizes or feminizes the brain.
In male fetal development of the leydig cells what does testosterone do?
✓ ~~~Developes the male tract, and converts to DTH which helps prodeuce male genitalia
In male adult development of the leydig cells what does testosterone do?
✓ ~~~Creates sperm, converts to DTH to maintain the male tract?
, In male fetal development of the seritoli cells what homrome is present?
✓ ~~~AMH
In male adult development of the seritoli cells what binds to the
anadrogin(testosterone)?
✓ ~~~ABP
Estrodiol creates what kind of brain?
✓ ~~~Male
AMH cause which tract to regresse?
✓ ~~~Female
When your genetics are XY with an SRY defect what happens with each of the
following tract, phenotype, brain, puberty, treatment?
✓ ~~~female ovary streak, female, female, nothing, female hormone therapy
When your genetics are XY with low to none 5 alpha reeducates what happens with
each of the following tract, phenotype, brain, puberty, treatment?
✓ ~~~male, female, male, male, male surgery
When your genetics are XY with no receptors for testosterone or DHT what happens
with each of the following tract, phenotype, brain, puberty, treatment?
✓ ~~~none does not form, female, male, nothing, male surgery
