Hormone Fertility

Topic: Menstrual Cycle class test
Q1. (a) The menstrual cycle is controlled by several hormones including FSH and progesterone.
Use your knowledge of the role of these hormones in the menstrual cycle to suggest explanations for
each of the following.
(i) FSH is given during fertility treatment to women who experience problems becoming pregnant.
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(ii) Progesterone is a component of the contraceptive pill.
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Q2. (a) Fig. 3.1 shows some of the events that occur in the menstrual cycle.
Fig. 3.1
(i) Put the events shown in Fig. 3.1 into the correct sequence. One has been done for you.
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(ii) State the name of the hormone that stimulates event A to occur.
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(iii) Event C means that menstruating females lose blood regularly.
Two females of the same age have different dietary needs because one has started menstruating and
the other has not started menstruating. Suggest why the dietary needs of the two females are different.
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Q2. Fig. 5.1 shows changes in the uterus during the menstrual cycle.
Fig. 5.1
(a) Identify R. ................................................... [1]
(b) State the days when each of the following processes are most likely to occur during the cycle.
(i) fertilisation ..........................................
(ii) implantation ........................................ [2]
Table 5.1 shows that temperature determines whether the eggs of a particular species of
reptile hatch into a male or a female.
Table 5
(d) (i) State the ranges of temperatures at which females are more likely than males to hatch from the
eggs.
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(ii) State three ways in which the production of a male human child differs from the production of the
male form of this reptile.
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Topic: Menstrual Cycle class test

(ii) Progesterone is a component of the contraceptive pill.

(iii) Event C means that menstruating females lose blood regularly.

(a) Identify R. ................................................... [1]

(i) fertilisation ..........................................

(ii) implantation ........................................ [2]

reptile hatch into a male or a female.

......................................................... and .......................................................... [2]

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