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Human Physiology, 7/e
Stuart I Fox, Pierce College
Reproduction

Critical Thinking Exercises

Please answer all questions



1

What would happen if you injected an early female embryo of a mouse with large amounts of testosterone?
2

Besides intense physical activity, what other behaviors can you think of which might induce amenorrhea?
3

If a man has prostitis, what two major physical activities will be impaired?
4

A previously infertile couple wishes to have a pregnancy but the man produces non-motile sperm. If it were possible to fertilize one of the woman's eggs by removing a sperm nucleus and injecting it into the egg, could this procedure ever produce viable offspring? Why or why not?
5

How is it that injecting progesterone into a woman will prevent ovulation?
6

Sometimes when a baby is feeding on one breast, the other breast begins to produce milk too. Why?








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