Human Repraduction Flashcards
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Ovaries
Store and realease the eggs
Fallopian tubes
Carry’s the eggs to the uterus, fertilisation occurs here
Uterus
Is where the fertilised egg becomes implanted and finds nourishment
Cervix
Leads from the vagina to the uterus
Vagina
Holds the male penis during sexual intercourse
Ovulation
An egg is realeased from the ovary an average of very 28 days
Mensration/ period
The lining and a small amount of blood pass out through the vagina
Fertile period
These are the days of menstrual cycle when the woman is most likely to become pregnant
Menopause
Signal the end of a females ability to reproduce and also the end of her menstual cycle, it usually happens in late 40s
Testes
Produc sperm
Puberty
Describes when the body starts becoming sexually mature happens between 10-16 years old
During inter course the man’s
Penis fills with blood and becomes hard enough to be placed inside a woman’s vagina
Seman
Mixture of sperm cells seminal fluid is realeased into the vagina during intercourse
The sperm swim
Up to the ueturus and into the Fallopian tube
Fertilisation
If an egg is present in the felopian tube, and a couple have intercourse then one sperm cell may fuse with it
Fertilised egg
The nuclei of the sperm and egg fuse together . The woman is now pregnant
Fygote-> embryo-> foetus
Umbilical cord
A tube joining the embryo to the placenta
Condom
Prevents sperm for e entering the vagina
Contractile pilll which prevents ovulation
Homozygous
having two identical alleles of a particular gene or genes.
Hetrozygous
having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes
Ominent
something (such as an event) that is both ominous and imminent.
