Kind of an edit to get the ball rolling on making a change to this card. This card wasn't tagged with its source origin upon creation and the UWorld question its tagged with doesn't mention the Graafian follicle. I personally haven't seen mention of the Graafian follicle in any of the primary MCAT sources but if anyone else has, I would love to know where if they could comment on this suggestion. There's reason to believe the information in this card is wrong based on the thread here https://community.ankihub.net/t/04-02-2024-updated-content-anking-step-deck-ankingmed-id-1260183/197540/24. This discussion is geared toward the step deck and it seems like they are ultimately going to go with a "tertiary follicle develops into a dominant follicle with concurrent atresia of neighboring cells." This conclusion would ultimately be supported by the Kaplan video here: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/organ-systems/mcat-reproductive-system/v/the-ovarian-cycle. However, there is no direct information to support this in Kaplan or UWorld. UWorld does state that:

Follicular phase (Days 1-13): Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) are secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. FSH peaks during the first week of the cycle and stimulates the development of several ovarian follicles. Subsequently, LH begins to surge, and one follicle becomes dominant. Estrogen, produced by the ovaries, also increases during this time. Simultaneously, endometrial changes include menses and the initial stages of endometrial proliferation.

Therefore, UWorld and KA would support the current edit. This edit avoids keeping likely incorrect information in the deck and provides a high level overview of what occurs during the follicular phase that is supported by primary MCAT materials. Can debate if KA alone is enough to support the current suggested edit in the step deck. In that case, the concurrent atresia of neighboring follicles would be able to stay. I think it would be weird to keep in the card in this current suggestion given that the atresia of neighboring cells is specific to the phase in the follicular cycle in which the tertiary follicle develops into the dominant follicle.