BioK Quick Quiz on Sexual reproduction AHL (11.

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BioKnowledgy Quick Quiz on Sexual reproduction AHL (11.4)

[16 marks]
1. The umbilical artery carries blood from the fetus to the placenta and the umbilical vein carries blood
from the placenta to the fetus. How does the composition of the blood in the umbilical artery and the
umbilical vein differ?

A. Blood in the umbilical artery contains less glucose than blood in the umbilical vein.

B. Blood in the umbilical artery contains less carbon dioxide than blood in the umbilical vein.

C. Blood in the umbilical vein contains less oxygen than blood in the umbilical artery.

D. Blood in the umbilical vein contains more urea than blood in the umbilical artery.
(Total 1 mark)

2. How do the levels of oxytocin and progesterone change immediately prior to birth?

Oxytocin Progesterone

A. decreases decreases

B. decreases increases

C. increases decreases

D. increases increases
(Total 1 mark)

3. Which pair of statements best describes oogenesis and spermatogenesis?

Oogenesis Spermatogenesis
A. Four eggs are produced per Millions of sperms are produced
mitosis every 28 days per mitosis
B. Four eggs are produced per One sperm is produced per
meiosis every 28 days meiosis
C. One egg is produced per mitosis Millions of sperms are produced
every 28 days per meiosis
D. One egg is produced per meiosis Four sperms are produced per
every 28 days meiosis
(Total 1 mark)

4. What happens to the polar bodies formed during oogenesis?

A. They cause the acrosome reaction.

B. They cause the cortical reaction.

C. They pull chromosomes to the ends of the cell when the zygote divides.

D. They are not used and break down.

(Total 1 mark)

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BioK Quick Quiz on Sexual reproduction AHL (11.4)

5. Which of the cells labelled in the diagram below provides nourishment for developing sperm cells?

[Source: Freeman & Bracegirdle, An Atlas of Histology, (Heinemann: 1976) p. 91, Copyright holder unknown.]
(Total 1 mark)

6. The diagram below shows a human egg.

What are the structures labelled I, II and III?

I II III
A. acrosomes zona pellucida follicle cells
B. acrosomes cell wall sperm
C. cortical granules cell wall sperm
D. cortical granules zona pellucida follicle cells
(Total 1 mark)

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BioK Quick Quiz on Sexual reproduction AHL (11.4)
7. What is the function of Sertoli cells?

A. They nourish sperm.

B. They produce testosterone.

C. They nourish interstitial cells.

D. They form the basement membrane.

(Total 1 mark)

8. Draw a labelled diagram of a mature sperm.

(Total 3 marks)

9. Outline the process of fertilization in humans.

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(Total 6 marks)

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