Male reproductive system:
- Bladder
- Stores urine
- Testis
- Carries out Meiosis which produces the male gamete, sperm cell
- Epididymis
- Store sperm cells
- Vas Deferens
- Carries sperm cells to the penis
- Prostate
- 20-30% of the volume of the semen, contains sugars. Alkaline solution, to neutralise the acidic secretions within the vagina
- Seminal Vesicals
- Produces 70% of the semen; sugar based and alkaline
- Urethra
- Common tube that joins the left and right Vas deferens, transports semen and urine down the penis
- Penis
- Carry sperm cells into vagina
Female reproductive system:
- Ovary
- Meiosis occurs to form the female gamete. the egg cell
- Oviduct
- Carry the eggs to the uterus, fertilisation occurs here
- Uterus wall
- the wall of the uterus, made of muscle and stretches to accomadate a pregnancy
- Uterus lining
- accepts and develops the fertilised egg into an embryo and then into a child, the placenta implants into here
- Uterus space
- Where the embryo is developed into an unborn child
- Cervix
- Entrance to uterus
- Vagina
- Collects the sperm from the penis and allows them to pass through the cervix and into the uterus
Before pregnancy the entire uterus structure is no larger than an orange.
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