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why do we study reproduction? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔required for improvement
and continuation of a species
Hypothalamus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔area of the brain responsible for
homeostatic functions
pituitary gland - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"master gland" secretes key regulatory
hormones
LH - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔hormone that causes ovulation
FSH - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔where follicle grows
, puberty - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔sexual maturation, HPG is able to function
Spermatogenesis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the production of sperm cells
castration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔surgical excision of testicles or ovaries
phases of estrous cycle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔proestrus, estrus, metestrus,
diestrus
estrus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔period of sexual activity (heat)
diestrus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔happens after estrus, sexually inactive
follicular phase - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔during estrus where ovulation occurs
dominated by estradiol
luteal phase - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔period of diestrus, dominated by
progesterone
leutinization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔development of corpus luteum after ovulation
function of corpus luteum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔produces progesterone
The main hormone produced by the corpus luteum is - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔progesterone