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21 Cards in this Set
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Main functions of reproductive system |
Produce sperm and eggs and help them meet up |
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Testes |
Produce sperm and secrete testosterone |
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Lobule |
250 smaller compartments kn a testes, form sperm, producs androgens (including testosterone) |
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Semi Inferous Tubules |
Located inside Lobule, forms sperm |
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Sperm Tail |
Allows sperm to swim |
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Sperm Body |
Mitochondria, energy |
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Sperm Head |
Primarily a nucleus with genetic information |
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Acrosome |
Helps sperm fertilize egg |
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Seminal Vesicles |
Secrete thick yellow material, rich in fructose, Vitamin C, and prostaglandins that nourishes and activates sperm as it passes through ducts |
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Prostate Gland |
Encircles urethra bellow bladder, secretes milky alkaline substances that increases the sperms mortality and counteracts the acid in the vagina as it enters the women's body |
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Bulbourethral Glands |
Located beneath prostate gland, Secretes a think mucus into the urethra that acts as lubricant during intercourse |
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FSH (male) |
Promotes spermatogenesis by stimulating the spermatogenesis cells to respond to testosterone |
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LH (male) |
Development if interstitial cells of the testes and secretion of testosterone |
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Testosterone |
Produces sperm, sex character, increased hair, depended voice, thicker skin and increased sweat glands, increased musculo-skeloton growth and development of male physique |
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Bartholin's Glands |
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Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GRH) |
Stimulates the secretion of LH and FSH (Gonadotropins) |
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FSH (female) |
Stimulates the growth and maturity of the ovarian follicle at the beginning of the follicular phase |
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LH |
Causes ovulation, stimulates corpus luteum to secrete progesterone |
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Estrogen |
Enlarge and develop female reproductive organs, enlarge and develop breasts, deposition fat into breath, but, and thighs, widens pelvis, onset of menstral cycle |
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Progesterone |
Helps maintain pregnancy, prepares breasts for milk production, and with estrogen it established the menstral cycle. |
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Functional Layer of Endomential Lining |
Shed during menstruation |
