Reproductive System
Anatomy MCQs: Female genital tract
Ovary, tube, uterus and vagina — a tract that makes an egg, catches it in open abdomen, and holds what may follow.
5 questions
The essentials
- Function
- Makes eggs and hormones, and carries a pregnancy
- Location
- In the pelvis, between the bladder in front and the rectum behind
The questions
Where does fertilisation normally take place?
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Answer: In the ampulla of the uterine tube
It happens in the wide outer third of the tube within a day of ovulation; the embryo reaches the uterus three or four days later.
How does an egg get from the ovary into the uterine tube?
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Answer: It is swept across a gap of peritoneal cavity by the fimbriae
Nothing joins them. The egg is released into the abdomen and collected by the fringe of the tube — the body's one open connection to the peritoneal cavity.
Which part of the endometrium is lost at menstruation?
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Answer: The functional layer
The functional layer is shed and the basal layer is kept — it is the seed the next lining regrows from, which is why scarring it costs the lining permanently.