Reproductive System Questions and Answers PDF

Questions and Correct Answers 1. What are the 3 functions of the male reproductive system? Answer: c) Produce sex hormones, produce/store sperm, deliver sperm to the female reproductive system. 2. What are the 3 functions of the female reproductive system? Answer: c) Produce se...

Questions and Correct Answers 1. What are the 3 functions of the male reproductive system? Answer: c) Produce sex hormones, produce/store sperm, deliver sperm to the female reproductive system. 2. What are the 3 functions of the female reproductive system? Answer: c) Produce sex hormones, produce eggs, provide a nourishing environment for the baby. 3. What is the pathway of the sperm? Answer: c) Testes, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate gland, bulbourethral glands, urethra. 4. What is a hollow, muscular, pear-shaped organ? Answer: a) Uterus. 5. Are females born with all the egg cells they will ever have? Answer: b) True. 6. What is the sterilization procedure that cuts the vas deferens to prevent sperm transport? Answer: b) Vasectomy. 7. What hormone is released by the anterior pituitary to stimulate the division of spermatogonia? Answer: a) FSH. 8. What are the female gonads called? Answer: d) Ovaries. 9. What is the most important hormone produced by the testes? Answer: b) Testosterone. 10. Where does sperm development occur? Answer: d) Seminiferous tubules. 11. What is the inner layer of the uterus called? Answer: d) Endometrium. 12. Which male reproductive structure is behind the urethra? Answer: c) Prostate gland. 13. Which male reproductive structure connects with the testes and stores sperm? Answer: d) Epididymis. 14. Which male reproductive structure connects the epididymis and the ejaculatory duct? Answer: a) Vas deferens. 15. Which glands produce the fluids that make up semen? Answer: a) Seminal vesicles, prostate, bulbourethral glands. 16. How can Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) be prevented? Answer: d) Avoiding unprotected sexual intercourse. 17. What is the correct path of the egg? Answer: c) Ovary, uterine tube, uterus, vagina. 18. What is the opening to the uterus called? Answer: a) Cervix. 19. What is the end of the female reproductive cycle in middle age called? Answer: a) Menopause. 20. What are examples of mechanical barriers of birth control? Answer: a) Condoms, c) Cervical cap, d) Diaphragm. 21. Which sexually transmitted infections are viral (incurable)? Answer: b) Genital warts (HPV), c) AIDS, e) Herpes. 22. What happens to an ovum if it is not fertilized? Answer: c) The ovum dies and leaves the body through the vagina (Period). 23. Where does fertilization usually occur? Answer: b) Fallopian tubes. 24. What is it called when a fertilized egg embeds itself into the uterus lining? Answer: a) Implantation. 25. What is a zygote called after many cell divisions? Answer: d) Embryo. 26. What is the exchange organ that allows the mother and embryo to exchange nutrients and waste? Answer: d) Placenta. 27. How long does a normal pregnancy last? Answer: b) 40 weeks. 28. What is the series of muscle contractions in the uterus that push the baby through the birth canal called? Answer: c) Labor. 29. What is the best way to prevent the spread of HIV? Answer: a) Use condoms during sexual intercourse. 30. Why don’t antibiotics cure HIV? Answer: c) Viruses are not affected by antibiotics. 31. What form of contraception helps prevent contracting an STI besides abstinence? Answer: a) A condom. 32. Which family of viruses causes cervical cancer? Answer: d) HPV. 33. What does AIDS stand for? Answer: a) Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. 34. What is a common parasitic infection with excessive frothy yellow-green discharge? Answer: a) Trichomoniasis. 35. What viral infection can progress to AIDS? Answer: a) HIV. 36. Which bacterial infection starts with a firm sore and can develop into a rash? Answer: a) Syphilis. 37. What are the signs of herpes? Answer: b) Sores and blisters. 38. Which bacterial infection can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease and may have no symptoms? Answer: b) Chlamydia. 39. Which type of STI can be managed but not cured? Answer: c) Viral. 40. How are gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis treated? Answer: d) With antibiotics. 41. What type of infections are herpes, HPV, hepatitis, and HIV? Answer: b) Viral.