State whether the following statements are true of false:
(i) Fertilization occurs in the vagina.
(ii) Gestation in humans is completed in about 380 days.
(iii) Oviducts and fallopian tubes are one and the same thing.
(iv) One egg is released from each of the two ovaries every months.
(v) The vagina is a muscular tube.

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Solution

(i) False
Fertilisation occurs in the oviducts.

(ii) False
Gestation in humans is completed in 270 days.

(iii) True

(iv) False
One egg is released from one of the two ovaries every other month alternately.

(v) True

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(i) False Fertilisation occurs in the oviducts. (ii) False Gestation in humans is completed in 270 days. (iii) True (iv) False One egg is released from one of the two ovaries every other month alternately. (v) True

(i) False
Fertilisation occurs in the oviducts.

(ii) False
Gestation in humans is completed in 270 days.

(iii) True

(iv) False
One egg is released from one of the two ovaries every other month alternately.

(v) True