A Healthy, Nulliparous 29-Year-Old Woman with Regular 28-Day Cycles Comes

question 85

Multiple Choice

A healthy, nulliparous 29-year-old woman with regular 28-day cycles comes to the office for a fertility evaluation.  Over the past year, she and her 30-year-old husband have been trying to conceive.  Her only medications are prenatal vitamins.  She tracks her periods, cervical mucus, basal temperature, and intercourse with a smartphone app.  The couple has intercourse every other day from cycle day 8 through the LH surge.  The patient's urine pregnancy test is positive.  The oocyte was most likely arrested in which of the following stages of meiosis immediately prior to fertilization?

• A)Metaphase of meiosis I
• B)Metaphase of meiosis II
• C)Prophase of meiosis I
• D)Prophase of meiosis II
• E)Telophase of meiosis I
• F)Telophase of meiosis II

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