True or false: The corpus luteum is retained upon implantation due to the presence of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).

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Hi everyone. Let's look at our next problem. It says the corpus ludie um is a mass of cells that forms in the ovary and produces the hormone blank during the early stages of pregnancy. While the hormone produced by the corpus ludie um the corpus lithium as the mass of cells that forms in the ovary after ovulation following ovulation. And it produces the hormone progesterone. Um If the egg is not fertilized levels of progesterone drop greatly and that triggers menstruation, menstruation is caused by a drop in progesterone levels. Uh If the egg is fertilized, progesterone is important to maintaining that uterine lining, preventing the uterine contractions that would expel um an egg or an embryo. And the corpus ludie um is going to produce progesterone until the placenta forms and takes over that production. So our answer here will be choice D progesterone. But let's just walk through our other answer choices, choices, testosterone. What we can recall. The testosterone is responsible for the develop ment of the male reproductive structures and in puberty, the development of male secondary sexual characteristics. Second mary. So that's obviously not our answer choice here. So we'll just cross that out. Choice B. Is estrogen. Well, estrogen is coordinated with progesterone and maintaining the female menstrual cycle. Um But estrogen uh is involved in uh coordinating or causing ovulation. Whereas progesterone is produced by the corpus ludie um after ovulation has occurred. Those two hormones interact in regulating the female menstrual cycle, estrogen also as responsible for the development of the female reproductive structures and secondary sexual characteristics and females. So not our answer choice here. Since we're looking for that hormone produced by the corpus Lupien and choices insulin well, insulin is the hormone responsible for the absorption of glucose from the blood and then it's storage and bodily tissues, which is why um insulin is the loss of the production of insulin is what causes diabetes, as the body can no longer regulate that storage of glucose and the glucose remains in the blood. But again, not our answer choice here. So we crossed that out So the corpus lady um produces the hormone and his choice to progesterone during the early stages of pregnancy. See you in the next video.