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GCSE Biology · key term
Difficulty becoming pregnant despite regular sexual intercourse over a sustained period.
Used by AQA and OCR
Specification 4.5.3.6 · Paper 2
A condition in which a person or couple has difficulty conceiving a child naturally.
Revise: Infertility TreatmentsThis Higher Tier topic shows how knowledge of reproductive hormones can be used to help treat infertility. The two routes to understand are the use of fertility drugs so that conception may occur inside the body, and in vitro fertilisation (IVF), in which fertilisation takes place in a laboratory.
Specification B3.2f · Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher)
Do not describe IVF as certain to produce a baby. State that success rates are not high and vary with factors such as the woman's age and the cause of infertility.
Infertility treatment increases the chance of pregnancy; it does not guarantee one.
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Infertility means difficulty becoming pregnant despite regular sexual intercourse over a sustained period. It can have different causes, so the treatment depends on the problem. In one menstrual cycle, an egg normally matures in an ovarian follicle before ovulation releases it.
Paper 1 (Foundation), Paper 2 (Foundation), Paper 3 (Higher), Paper 4 (Higher)
Difficulty becoming pregnant despite regular sexual intercourse; it can have several causes.
Revise: Infertility TreatmentsIn some cases of infertility, follicles containing eggs do not develop successfully, or ovulation does not occur. Hormone treatment can help with these particular problems; it does not treat every cause of infertility.