ANAPHY FINALS REPRODUCTIVE Flashcards
categories based on anatomy, chromosomes, or hormones
Sex
indicates who a person knows themselves to be
Gender (gender identity)
characteristics an individual displays to the world
Gender expression
describes whom an individual is sexually attracted to
Sexual orientation
is assigned at birth by a medical team
• Based on external genitalia
Sex
Development and functioning of external and internal genitalia based on ________
• Requires hormones and presence of the hormone’s receptors to occur
hormonal signaling
All _____ present in human body
• Differ in amounts of hormones produced (SEX AND GENDER)
reproductive hormones
Present in all individuals
Breast
Breasts Increase in size due to presence of
estrogens
modified sweat glands that secrete milk
Mammary glands
• Clustered together in alveoli
Mammary glands
Alveoli connect to ____ that
connect to lactiferous ducts
lactiferous sinuses
____ allow milk to exit via nipple at surface
Lactiferous ducts
collective term for biological female external genitalia
Vulva
fat pad that covers and protects pubic symphysis
Mons pubis