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For your internship at the local zoo, you have been assigned to help with the new orangutan- breeding program. Little is know about orangutan reproductive hormones, but hormone feedback cycles are often the same in closely related animals. You
have been asked to use your knowledge of the interactions of human reproductive hormone to recommend injections to promote ovulation in a female orangutan when a visiting male arrives for a brief breeding visit.
-A pregnant woman comes into the hospital past her due date. The doctor decides it is time for the baby to be delivered. Before performing a cesarean section, the doctor wants to try to induce labour. Which of the following would she most likely inject?
A) estrogen
B) oxytocin
C) luteinizing hormone LH)
D) progesterone
E) follicle- stimulating hormone FSH)

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Oxytocin is commonly used to induce labor by stimulating contractions of the uterus. Estrogen and progesterone play a role in maintaining pregnancy and would not be used to induce labor. LH and FSH are involved in the female reproductive cycle but not directly in labor induction.

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