SCIENCE W1 3Q Flashcards
(28 cards)
All living things, like human beings, are able to to
breed offspring through the process known as
Reproduction
Role of Male Reproductive Systemic
To produce and transport
Role of Female Reproductive
System
To produce egg cell and for child-bearing
is a tube that passes through the penis to the outside of the body which carries urine and sperm.
Urethra
is a soft, tubular organ that hangs front of the body and is the external sexual organ of the male through which the sperm are delivered into the female’s body.
Penis
Are made up of coiled tubules in which sperm are produced
Testes
- a coiled J-shaped tube located
on the back of each testicles. - stores the sperm after they have been
produced.
Epididymis
a tube that receives sperm from the epididymis of each testicle
Vas deferens
a pouch of skin that hangs from the penis which houses the testes and it protects the sperm by keeping the temperature of the testes slightly lower than normal body temperature
Scrotum
- located in the testis - found inside the scrotum
- it fertilizes the egg.
The sperm
small and almond-shaped organs. located inside the female, just a few inches below the waist. it secrets hormones: estrogen & progesterone to produce mature egg. produce & release ripined egg every 28 days
Ovaries
• Two very fine tubes which extended from each ovary into the uterus.
• main function: to contain egg until fertilization takes place.
• provide a passageway leading the sperm to the egg.
Fallopian tube
- A hallow, muscular, pear-shaped organ located between the two ovaries.
- It is where the fertilized egg will develop and grow into baby.
- However, if the eggs remain unfertilized, the uterus shed and passes through the vagina, through mentrual discharge
Uterus
A narrow structure within an inch-long canal connecting lower end of uterus to the upper portion of the vagina.
Cervix
• A hallow tube leading to the cerviz to the outside
of the body.
• The wall is elastic which allows to expand during
childbirth and sexual intercourse
Vagina
the first menstrual flow, signals that a girl
enters a transition time called puberty.
Menarche
When a woman reaches late forties r early fifties, her menstruation eventually stops.
Menopause
When egg starts to develop, it secrets
Estrogen
The production of the _____ after the time the egg reaches the uterus
Progesterone increases
- Medical Term for heavy periods
- Also known as abnormal uteri bleeding
- defined as a blood loss of more than. 80mL per cycle
Menorrhagia
Not clearly male or female
Intersexuality
genetically male develops as a female dur to hormone androgen
Androgen-sexuality syndrome
absence of one or both testes
Cryptorchidism
uncontrolled division and growth cell that, in many cases, form lumps or masses called tumors
Cancer