Female Organs Flashcards
What’s a cervix ?
A muscular barrier sealing the uterus maintains sterile environment and protecting the tract from infection
What does a vagina do ?
Kills bacteria and prevented infection
What does oviducts do ?
Where fertilisation happens
What do ovaries do ?
Where ova is produced as well as oestrogen and progesterone
What’s a vulva do ?
Swells to show receptivity to the male
What’s a uterus do?
Where ovum implants and stretches to fit growing foetus
What does uterine horns do ?
Helps produce several offspring at once
What’s copulation ?
Act of maternity
What’s fertilisation ?
Sperm and egg fuse together
What implantation
Fertilised egg attaches to uterus wall
What’s gestation?
Fototas develops in uterus
What’s partition?
Foetus expelled from the body
When does the dna make two gametes combine
Fertilisation
The length of time between conception and birth
Gestation
Where does fertilisation take place ?
Fallopian tubes
